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Ebola’s Lessons

August 21, 2015 By HPMcleod Leave a Comment

This Foreign Affairs article from Laurie Garrett on how Ebola journeyed through West Africa focuses on Liberia and is a good read. Striking though, is the revelation that the epidemic was on the decline by the time the American troops arrived. This is hardly publicized by the media, depriving the Liberians and their partners of […]

Filed Under: Development Issues, Health, Mano River Union

Policy dilemmas and alternatives in a post-Ebola Economy

June 26, 2015 By HPMcleod Leave a Comment

Sierra Leone’s economic performance in the three years preceding the Ebola outbreak was impressive. The decline in iron ore prices occurred at the same time and wreaked further havoc to the economy. Paradoxically, some of the consequences were off-set by the Ebola dividend—budget support, limited debt relief, and more aid from donors including the IMF, […]

Filed Under: Development Issues, Health, Mano River Union, Policy

Interpreting data for post-Ebola Recovery

February 8, 2015 By HPMcleod Leave a Comment

Its not always easy to interpret data. Take the case of data on per capita expenditure on health by Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone as published by the World Bank  Health expenditure per capita (current US$) Data from World Bank This shows that Salone is spending far more on health per capita than either Guinea […]

Filed Under: Beyond the Border, Development Issues, Health, Mano River Union Tagged With: Ebola, health spending

Ebola – The Complex Crisis

August 15, 2014 By HPMcleod 1 Comment

Global Health Emergency for the world but a Complex Humanitarian Crisis for Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. The world continues to consider the crises in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea a Global Health Emergency when all the signs are apparent that the current Ebola outbreak is already a complex Humanitarian Crisis of unparalleled proportions. The […]

Filed Under: Beyond the Border, Health, Mano River Union Tagged With: complex humanitarian crisis, Ebola, global health emergency, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone

Do Local Content Policies capture increased value from the mining industry?

March 14, 2014 By HPMcleod 1 Comment

Is the current Local Content Policy (LCP) the answer for our iron ore industry? The idea of increasing local content for extractives and other natural resource products exported from a developing country has its roots in the 1960s and 70s when developing countries were mainly integrated into global markets through the exports of raw materials […]

Filed Under: Development Issues, Mano River Union, Mining, Policy Tagged With: Iron ore industry, local content policy, Mano River Union, SL Transformation conference

Mano River Union Security Strategy

October 26, 2013 By HPMcleod Leave a Comment

Done! Ministers from the four member states of the Mano River Union met in Conkary and have adopted the draft Security Strategy for submission to the Heads of States. I led a team of three consultants, including Patrice Vahard and Zannoubo Vinagnon, to draft the Strategy. It was then reviewed, refined and validated by experts […]

Filed Under: Beyond the Border, Mano River Union, Mining, Policy Tagged With: Development Issues, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mano River Union, Security, Sierra Leone

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