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Liberia
Economic Development, Environment, Health, and the Internet

• African Development Bank on Liberia (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
  Basic economic indicators and links to other "country operations" reports.
  
  
• Central Bank of Liberia -- Official Site (Monrovia)
  
  
• Development Gateway Country Overview on Liberia (Washington, DC)
  A clearinghouse of links to a wide variety of organizational websites with economic data. Originally founded by The World Bank, the DG has been an "independent", donor-funded organization since 2001.
  
  
• Directory of Development Organizations: Liberia (2008) (Bert Wesselink, The Netherlands?) PDF format.
  
  
• FAO Aquastat Programme -- Liberia, 2005 (Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome)
  A profile of Liberian water resources. "The 'thirst' for water data is ever increasing and there is indeed considerable demand for data on rural water use from national governments and development agencies. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations initiated an activity in 1993 to meet this demand with particular focus on irrigation. This resulted in the AQUASTAT Programme, the objective of which is to generate rural water use data at country level in a systematic manner."
  -- See also, FAO Document Repository on Liberia
  
  
• Governance and Economic Management Assistance Program (GEMAP) (Monrovia, Liberia)
  "The GEMAP...is a partnership between the Government of Liberia (GOL) and the international community that seeks to build a system of economic governance to promote accountability, responsibility and transparency in fiscal management so that Liberia's resources will be used in the interests of its citizens." See especially:
  -- GEMAP documents
  -- GOL documents
  
  
• Government of the Republic of Liberia on the Economy and Health
  
  
• The International Monetary Fund: Liberia Country Info (Washington, DC)
  Summaries, full length reports, and recent news. Note: Some documents are in PDF format, requiring  Adobe Acrobat.
  
  
• Mano River Union -- Official Site (2006) (Freetown, Sierra Leone)
  The last meeting of the member states of this organization took place in 2004. "The Mano River Union (MRU) is an international association established in 1973 between Liberia and Sierra Leone, with the objective of sub-regional economic integration. In 1980, Guinea joined the union."
  
  
• MBendi AfroPaedia: Liberia (MBendi Information Services, South Africa)
  A basic economic & investment profile.
  
  
• National Information and Communications Infrastructure for Sustainable Development in Africa:  Liberia, 1999 (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopi)
  General background, Internet connectivity data, and project information.
  
  
• Republic of Liberia, The Ministries -- Economy & Health (Monrovia)
  • Agriculture
  • Finance
  • Health & Social Welfare
  • Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy, July 2006--June 2008. PDF format (via Ministry of Information, Culture & Tourism)
  • National Investment Commission
    
    
  
  
• Save the Children, UK: Liberia Reports, 2007 to present (London, UK)
  
  
• United Nations Development Programme on Liberia (New York)
  • UNDP in Liberia: news and reports
    
    
  • National Human Development Report 2006 for Liberia. (Online) 76 pages in PDF format
  • UNDP Human Development Report Indicators for Liberia: 2004-2007
  
  
• UNESCO on Liberia (via Columbia University Libraries)
  
  
• UNFPA--United Nations Population Fund: Search for Liberia Country Indicators, Policy Developments, and Overview (New York)
  
  
• United States Agencies on Liberia (Washington, DC)
  • US Agency for International Development on Liberia -- Country Information
    
    
  • United States. Census Bureau. Foreign Trade Statistics
    -- US-Liberia Trade Balance, 1992--
    -- US International Trade Statistics: Liberia, 1996-- (Search)
    
    
  • United States. Commercial Service: Recent documents on Liberia economy: including 2007 Commercial Guide. (International Trade Administration)
    
    
  • United States. Department of State:  Commercial Guide on Liberia, 2000 (in PDF only)
    
    
  
  
• The World Bank on Liberia (Washington, DC)
  • The World Bank in Liberia, 1999-
    Country brief and data (PDF file); documents and reports; plus, a searchable database on project information.
    -- See especially: Community cohesion in Liberia: a post-war rapid social assessment (2005). Compiled by Paul Richards [et al.] Social development notes; no. 21 (January 2005) 92 pages in PDF or Word format.