Liberia's MCC Scorecards Tell a Harder Story Than the Politics

Liberia's MCC Scorecards Tell a Harder Story Than the Politics

Liberia's recent Millennium Challenge Corporation scorecards offer a useful corrective to partisan claims. They do not show that President Joseph Boakai's administration is currently outperforming former President George Weah's final-year performance. They show something more complicated: Liberia remains broadly eligible and reform-relevant, but its policy performance has weakened from the Fiscal Year 2024 scorecard and has not yet recovered to …

BOAKAI’S MCC SCORECARD SHOWS A GOVERNMENT CAUGHT BETWEEN PROGRESS, PROMISES, AND PERSISTENT FAILURES

By Socrates Smythe Saywon | Smart News Liberia MONROVIA – The 2026 Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Scorecard presents a complicated and revealing portrait of the Unity Party administration under President Joseph Nyuma Boakai. While the government succeeded in passing 12 indicators, it also failed 10 others, exposing both encouraging progress and troubling weaknesses at a time when Liberians are demanding economic recovery, stronger instit…