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15 years on

April 11, 2017 By HPMcleod Leave a Comment

It is already 15 years since the guns fell silent officially in Salone. For some, it would seem that the past conflict is history and only the bad memories of its horrors reappear from time to time. When one scratches below the surface of our economy or reflect on the state of poverty, it is […]

Filed Under: Government, Policy, SL3T

On Poverty and Corruption

June 2, 2016 By HPMcleod Leave a Comment

I was asked to add my few Leones worth of ideas to the above. I usually avoid getting into the debate for several reasons. First, some reportedly corrupt societies in recent history have displayed remarkable growth at early periods – China after Tianaman, Indonesia twenty years ago, and Salone between 2010 and 2013. The drivers […]

Filed Under: Development Issues, Government, Growth Tagged With: corruption, poverty

A silver lining?

March 25, 2016 By HPMcleod Leave a Comment

A silver lining? Impact of Commodity Price Fall on Good Governance in Sierra Leone was just posted by the World Bank Institute’s Governance for Extractive Industries Program (GOXI) written in collaboration with Nicolas Maennling and Lisa Sachs. From 2002 to 2013, resource-rich countries in Africa enjoyed the benefits of a commodity boom, using increased revenues […]

Filed Under: Development Issues, Mining, Policy

Reminiscent of the past?

November 25, 2015 By HPMcleod Leave a Comment

Anything new, have we been down this road before? Parliament: 2 new APC MPs take oath as SLPP MPs walk out All but one Member of Parliament of the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party Monday staged a walk out in parliament during the swearing-in-ceremony of two MPs of the ruling All People’s Congress. http://slconcordtimes.com/parliament-2-new-apc-mps-take-oath-as-slpp-mps-walk-out/

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GAC Summit (World Economic Forum)

November 8, 2015 By HPMcleod Leave a Comment

“One of the underlying threads running through the recent GAC Summit (World Economic Forum) was the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This paradigm shift of connected industry and Artificial Intelligence is advancing exponentially faster than previous revolutions, with deep consequences for economy, society and politics.” Culled from the WEF’s weekly bulletin <GAC@e.weforum.org> . This happened last week and […]

Filed Under: Government, Policy

Rethink the five year mandate

July 3, 2015 By HPMcleod Leave a Comment

Constitutional Review. Time to rethink the five year mandate. It forces our leaders to look for quick wins, and this is often at the expense of longer term and more sustainable results. Short five year terms may be OK for “matured” economies, their railways are already built, road infrastructure in place, cities more or less […]

Filed Under: Government, Policy Tagged With: presidential term

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