Liberia: NTA Is the Key to Lowering the Cost of Living

As an owner of two businesses that hire employees in Monrovia, one of the first questions I use to screen new entry-level employees is to ask whether they live in the same neighborhood as the business location they applied for. For example, I avoid hiring frontline staff (think waiters, delivery drivers, etc) who live in Redlight for a role in Sinkor.

My reasoning is fairly intuitive and based on experience–their transportation costs would simply take up too high a percentage of their salaries,…