Even by the standards with which she is familiar, Liberia is exceptional. "Three quarters of the population live below the poverty line-that's one U.S. dollar a day-half are on less than fifty cents a day. What infrastructure there was has been destroyed-roads, ports, municipal electricity, water, sanitation, schools, hospitals-all desperately lacking or nonexistent; eighty-six-percent unemployment, no street lights. . . .
( Zadie Smith )
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