Friday 21 November 2014

Liberia's economy to shrink this year due to Ebola

Medical staff wearing protective suits gather at a health facility near the Liberia-Sierra Leone border in western Liberia MONROVIA (Reuters) - Liberia, the West African nation hardest hit by Ebola, will see its economy shrink by 0.4 percent this year, and 2015 could be even worse, its finance minister said on Thursday. Liberia, where the disease has killed over 2,800 people, had projected growth of 5.9 percent this year before Ebola struck the country, crippling agriculture and its fast-growing mining sector in particular. Last month, the government announced that the economy had fallen into recession. ...




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