Liberia’s Budget to Cross U.S.$1 Billion in September, Ngafuan Says in Flag Day Oration

MONROVIA – Liberia’s national budget will pass US$1 billion for the first time in the country’s history sometime next month, Finance Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan said Monday, using the National Flag Day oration to put a date on a threshold he said critics had dismissed as unreachable.

“When some critics and cynics considered a billion-dollar national budget a distant and unrealistic aspiration, we chose to pursue the difficult work of expanding domestic revenue and strengthening fiscal…