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      Wasted talent – How COVID-19’s effect on the poor could make all of society poorer
      Ruby Richardson - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
      The opening keynote of the recent WIDER Development Conference, COVID-19 and development – effects and new realities for the Global South, was given by Oriana Bandiera, Sir Anthony Atkinson Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, an accomplished economist with several awards under...
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      The legacy of conflict: aggregate evidence from Sierra Leone
      Tillman Hönig - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
      This paper studies the general equilibrium impact of civil war in Sierra Leone. I first use an instrumental variable (IV) strategy and geographic conflict variation to estimate reduced-form effects. I show that civil war leads to affected areas having a higher share of workers in agriculture, fewer...
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      Occupational choice of skilled workers in the presence of a large development sector
      – Evidence from Sierra Leone
      Jamelia Harris - UNU-WIDER , 2019 - Helsinki, Finland
      Using data from Sierra Leone, I explore the role of cognitive ability in sorting across sectors and the importance of perceptions in the employment decision-making process. Crucial to the analysis is the introduction of the aid-industry/development sector as a ‘third sector’, which is shown to be...
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      Substantial but Uneven Achievement
      – Selected Success When Stars Align. Public Financial Management Reforms in Sierra Leone
      Heidi Tavakoli, Ismaila Cessay, Winston Cole - Routledge , 2017
      From the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
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      Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
      Rachel M. Gisselquist - Routledge , 2017
      This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at www.tandfebooks.com and offered as a free PDF download from Taylor & Francis Group and selected open access locations. Development assistance to fragile states and conflict-affected areas can...
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      Development assistance for peacebuilding
      Rachel M. Gisselquist - UNU-WIDER , 2017 - Helsinki, Finland
      Development assistance to fragile states and conflict-affected areas is a core component of peacebuilding. It includes support for the restoration of core government functions, delivery of basic services, the rule of law, and economic revitalization. Yet, while aid has been among the largest...
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      Journal Article This peer-reviewed research is available free of charge. UNU-WIDER believes that research is a global public good and supports Open Access.
      Substantial but Uneven Achievement
      – Selected Success When Stars Align. Public Financial Management Reforms in Sierra Leone
      Heidi Tavakoli, Ismaila Cessay, Winston Cole - International Peacekeeping , 2015 - London, United Kingdom
      Part of Journal Special Issue Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
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      Development Assistance for Peacebuilding
      Rachel M. Gisselquist - International Peacekeeping , 2015 - London, United Kingdom
      Development assistance to fragile states and conflict-affected areas can be a core component of peacebuilding, providing support for the restoration of government functions, delivery of basic services, the rule of law and economic revitalization. Despite a wealth of research, however, significant...
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      Transition Regimes and Security Sector Reforms in Sierra Leone and Liberia
      Ato Kwamena Onoma - The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science , 2014
      Part of Journal Special Issue Aid and Institution-Building in Fragile States
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      Successes and Challenges of Public Financial Management in Sierra Leone
      UNU - WIDER - UNU-WIDER , 2014 - Helsinki, Finland
      Fragile and conflict-affected states, like Sierra Leone, can maintain a strong public financial management structure if they are able to find foreign support for administrative capacity and sufficient domestic political and executive support. PFM legal framework, budget planning and scrutiny, still...
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      Success When Stars Align
      – Public Financial Management Reforms in Sierra Leone
      Heidi Tavakoli, Ismaila Cessay, Winston Cole - UNU-WIDER , 2014 - Helsinki, Finland
      Since the end of the civil war, the Government of Sierra Leone has made substantial progress in strengthening public financial management. Improvements have been achieved across all aspects of the budget cycle and are particularly notable with regard to budget execution functions. The main factors...
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      Transition Regimes and Security Sector Reforms in Sierra Leone and Liberia
      Ato Kwamena Onoma - UNU-WIDER , 2014 - Helsinki, Finland
      Why are some countries more successful at carrying out post-conflict reconstruction programmes than others? Why has Sierra Leone been more successful in the reform of its armed forces than Liberia has after the end of the Mano River Basin wars? This paper argues that the diverging outcomes are...
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      The Economic Legacy of Civil War
      – Firm-level Evidence from Sierra Leone
      Paul Collier, Marguerite Duponchel - Journal of Conflict Resolution , 2013
      Part of Journal Special Issue Entrepreneurship and Conflict
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      Aid and Economic Growth
      – The Case of Sierra Leone
      UNU - WIDER - UNU-WIDER , 2012 - Helsinki, Finland
      Phillip Michael Kargbo's UNU-WIDER working paper, 'Impact of Foreign Aid on Economic Growth in Sierra Leone: Empirical Analysis' examines the impact of foreign aid on growth in Sierra Leone using a variety of econometric approaches. The paper finds that in the period 1970-2007 aid has a significant...
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      Impact of Foreign Aid on Economic Growth in Sierra Leone
      – Empirical Analysis
      Philip Michael Kargbo - UNU-WIDER , 2012 - Helsinki, Finland
      This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on economic growth in Sierra Leone, a country where an empirical econometric study on aid effectiveness is yet to exist. Using a triangulation of approaches involving the ARDL bounds test approach and the Johansen maximum likelihood approach to...
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      The Economic Legacy of Civil War
      – Firm Level Evidence from Sierra Leone
      Paul Collier, Marguerite Duponchel - UNU-WIDER , 2010 - Helsinki, Finland
      This paper positions itself among the very rare microeconomic analyses on the consequences of civil war. Up to now, most analyses on this topic are based upon household surveys. The originality of the present study is that it investigates for the first time the likely predominant route by which...
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