Why they don't see retuning home as an immediate option. Jr. The Liberian economy continues to be a case study in economic depression.
Unemployment continues to climb astronomically.
Inflation perhaps hyperinflation and a weakened currency add fuel to a flame of unprecedented poverty and hardship for the average Liberian. With the United Nations and other groups calling for sanctions on this poor West African country, the future appears bleak for the Sweet Land of Liberty. Liberia was once regarded as the symbolic light on the Dark Continent. The lone star in a dark blue field on her flag proclaims her dawn as Africa s first Republic. However, today, the economies of Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Nigeria, all of who received independence at least one hundred years after Liberia, continue to flourish while Mother Liberia s economic ship forges into troubled waters.