Liberia: 'Disjointed Data' - Inadequate Funding Impeding Uniformity in Statistics

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Liberia: 'Disjointed Data' - Inadequate Funding Impeding Uniformity in Statistics

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- In Liberia getting accurate statistics or data on specific issues is a major challenge as the data on many issues including poverty, roads, education and literacy, birth rate, infant mortality, death rate, and others are all estimates provided by international institutions.

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