In London on October 2 2014, I wrote on the response necessary to eradicate Ebola and restore Sierra Leone to full economic health. Published the article on HuffingtonPost UK as ICG Country Director and LSEs Africa at LSE blog. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has exposed deep pre-existing fault lines in Sierra Leone. The donor pledges being […]
Estimating the social and economic impact of the Ebola crisis
Gave a presentation on the effects of Ebola during IGC Growth Week last week. Find the full presentation below. Ebola-effects-presentation-at-the-IGC-Growth-Week-held-at-LSE-last-week
Ebola: Stop the Quarantine of Entire African Countries
This petition, was published by Amadou Mahtar Ba on Aug 30, 2014. Petition Background (Preamble): As the Ebola Virus disease keeps spreading, many governments have started adopting strict measures to avoid contagion. Those measures very often included air and sea restrictions and border closures with countries where the virus has been identified. This situation creates a […]
Round Table on Managing Natural Resources
Just got back from a presentation to the Round Table on Managing Natural Resources organized by the Belgian Mission to the UN in New York for some Missions and selected UN officials. My message: (a) preaching to Governments in fragile states to implement good NRM policies is not good enough, we must empower the people […]
Do Local Content Policies capture increased value from the mining industry?
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 […]
Street Trading
Yusuf Bangura’s article on Street Traders and State Power should be applauded for its attempt to introduce structured analyses into the search for a solution to the problem. Hopefully,this will illustrate that criticism is not necessarily a sign of being in the “other” camp and therefore a trigger for attack. The recent creation of Think Tanks […]