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A recent editorial boldly declared that “Liberia is too rich to be poor.”<\/em> The sentiment is true–but the conclusion is incomplete. Liberia’s poverty is not a mystery, a coincidence, or a natural disaster. It is the predictable result of a political and economic system built on extraction, not inclusion. And unless we confront the real source of the problem–the architecture of power itself–no amount of outrage, slogan, or emotional appeal will change Liberia’s condition.<\/p>\n Liberia Is Poor Because…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> A recent editorial boldly declared that “Liberia is too rich to be poor.” The sentiment is true–but the conclusion is incomplete. Liberia’s poverty is not a mystery, a coincidence, or a natural disaster. It is the predictable result of a political and economic system built on extraction, not inclusion. And unless we confront the real […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":216084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[53075,258,256,4712,1107,257,8943,9981,6884,53076,12809,254],"class_list":["post-216083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-hence","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-poor","tag-problem","tag-real","tag-rebuttal","tag-rich","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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