Liberia Research Library: Popular Appraisals of Socio-economic Conditions in Liberia, 2008

Year:

2009

Organization / Publisher / Reference:

Afrobarometer Briefing Paper No. 71, October 2009

Authors:

Alaric Tokpa, Dan Saryee, Daniel Armah-Attoh

Areas:

Security and Policing

Sub-topic:

Publicly available?:

yes

Method:

Multi-stage, area probability sampling of citizens of voting age.

Sample size (n):

1 200

Main findings:

Nearly two-thirds of Liberians anticipate that both the economic condition of the country and their own personal living conditions will improve in the next year.The most important national priority of Liberians is to improve the economic conditions of the poor. A solid majority of Liberians is of the opinion that the current government is handling management of the economy badly. A majority thinks that the government’s economic policies have hurt most people and only benefitted a few.

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Tags:

security and policing