NGAFUAN’S ECONOMIC CLAIMS QUESTIONED AS LIBERIANS FACE RISING BREAD-AND-BUTTER HARDSHIPS

NGAFUAN’S ECONOMIC CLAIMS QUESTIONED AS LIBERIANS FACE RISING BREAD-AND-BUTTER HARDSHIPS

MONROVIA – When Finance and Development Planning Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan asked whether government should “buy physical bread and butter and share it with citizens” before Liberians are convinced that bread-and-butter issues are being addressed, he was not merely being sarcastic. He was exposing a troubling disconnect between economic theory in government circles and the lived reality of ordinary Liberians. Bread-and-butter issues are no…