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MONROVIA –<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n “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…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":242125,"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":[258,256,6495,6080,8816,7165,10071,1107,8536,257,9152,49160,6587,254,45453],"class_list":["post-242124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-billion","tag-budget","tag-cross","tag-day","tag-flag","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberias","tag-news","tag-ngafuan","tag-oration","tag-september","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-1"],"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\/242124","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=242124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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