LIBERIA 2040: A DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP ________________________________________________________________________ Task Force Report Fall 2017 Authored By: Estephanie Aquino Julia Decerega Allyssa Dobkins Else Drooff James Fair Oscar Guerra Connie Lee Ray Lu Anthony Marquez Savannah Moss Hannah Pruitt Garrison Roe PBPL 85: Topics in Global Policy Leadership Professor Charles Wheelan Rockefeller Center for Public Policy Dartmouth College Contact: Nelson A. Rockefeller Center, 6082 Rockefeller Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755 http://rockefeller.dartmouth.edu/shop/ • Email:
[email protected] TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 METHODS 1 HISTORY 2 ECONOMY 3 GOVERNANCE 3 INFRASTRUCTURE 4 EDUCATION 4 HEALTH 5 CONCLUSION 6 INTRODUCTION 7 DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP 8 THEME 1: BOLSTER HUMAN CAPITAL CAPACITY 8 THEME 2: DEVELOP ROAD NETWORK 9 THEME 3: INCREASE ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY 9 THEME 4: EXPAND DOMESTIC PRODUCTION 10 THEME 5: REDUCE CORRUPTION AND REFORM GOVERNMENT PRACTICES 11 HISTORY 11 LIBERIA’S FOUNDING STORY 11 A SEPARATIST STATE 12 THE CIVIL WAR 14 AID 16 CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM 18 WHY SHOULD DEVELOPED NATIONS CARE? 19 ECONOMY 20 INTERNATIONAL TRADE 20 INDUSTRIAL COMPOSITION 21 Natural Resources 21 Agriculture 23 Manufacturing 25 Fishing 26 Banking and Private Sector Financing 28 REGIONAL OPPORTUNITIES 30 TAX REVENUE CLIMATE 31 Current Tax Structure 31 International Benchmarking 32 Import Tariffs 33 Corporate Income Taxes 34 Personal Income Tax Base 35 GOVERNANCE 37 INTRODUCTION 37 IMPLEMENT THE NATIONAL BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION