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Lessons from foreign investments in Liberia Conclusion 1b: Lip-service to the 'Liberianization-policy'
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Many state-owned enterprises and ventures were managed by expatriates or by foreign companies holding management contracts. Examples:
The same applied to partially Government owned companies such as:
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1) Under Doe’s regime the contracting of foreign managers continued, the most notorious example being the management of the Africa Hotel. This was granted to one Gus van Kouwenhoven, a Dutch national who would become associated with Charles Taylor’s predatory presidency which eventually led to his arrest and trial in the Netherlands.
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