Some of my colleagues will be working in governments such as Southern Sudan, Liberia and Cape Verde to promote development. I charted the government expenditures for our respective countries per capita and in total (let me know if my numbers are inaccurate).
Liberia clearly has the smallest budget in both total and per capita terms. With $27 per person, the government of Liberia has to rebuild the country from scratch, having experienced two civil wars as recently as 2003. With $27 per person, the government of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is charged with rebuilding roads, developing a modern health care system, providing clean water and food distribution infrastructure and providing education and social programs. They have a big task ahead of them. Good luck Team Liberia!
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Just a correction on the numbers from Southern Sudan:
Numerator should be $1.8B
Denominator is very uncertain, but most likely estimate is 12M people.
So we've got about $150 per person in government spending here. The distribution of that spending is another thing entirely...
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