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The exchange rate has moved from about L$190 to L$170 for US$1, but small traders say wholesalers still convert their purchases at the old rate. The government must establish what is happening, enforce transparent pricing and end a silence that is feeding confusion and resentment.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n A stronger<\/strong> Liberian dollar means little to ordinary people if its gains stop at the Central Bank’s exchange rate board and never reach the wholesale counter.<\/p>\n Small traders<\/strong> in Monrovia say that is what is happening. The…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The exchange rate has moved from about L$190 to L$170 for US$1, but small traders say wholesalers still convert their purchases at the old rate. The government must establish what is happening, enforce transparent pricing and end a silence that is feeding confusion and resentment. A stronger Liberian dollar means little to ordinary people if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":246337,"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":[258,256,10746,4712,1107,1090,4356,257,5160,254,7288],"class_list":["post-246336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dollar","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberian","tag-market","tag-news","tag-reach","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stronger"],"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\/246336","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=246336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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