I am baffled when I see that someone of our colleagues, rather than take pragmatic and measured steps to achieving political goals and outcomes, they chose to think that historical accidents will deliver the political […]
By Dr. James F. Kollie, Jr. | Today, I hear everyone starting every sentence with “pro-poor” and some even try to make fun out of it simply because they may not understand what it means. […]
Way too many times we have deceived ourselves that government is creating the policy environment for the private sector to thrive. We have only said these in words and they have never been backed by […]
I live in a very interesting country called Liberia. And I must admit that I have come to love this country the more I get to understand its people. It is a country in which […]
It was on a Sunday, in May 2004 when Samuel D. Tweah (Dtweah) came to visit me at my home in Crystal, Minnesota (6500 34th Ave N) that we started a conversation about the “humanitarian […]
Usually, we are tempted to believe – to our own peril – that when we are on our “high horse,” the many praise singers we see are indeed admirers and “loyal foot soldiers.” We think […]
In 2014 when Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone were hit by the EVD, it was a blessing that we got the attention of the world. I remember when consultants and media experts would whisper to […]
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine invited me to a panel discussion on Pandemic Financing. Now I can see that I was still young at that time and it was just 2015. take […]
We looked at the numbers this morning again and all we could do was laugh. We are harmonizing payroll and trying to fit within our domestic resource envelop. It is my understanding that our payroll […]
A few weeks ago I talked about “systems theory.” I was intending to pontificate that unless every part (of the system) worked together rather than in silos, the possibility of achieving goals would be close […]