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 […]
Can a Post-Crisis Country Survive in the Time of Ebola? My Comments
“Can a Post-Crisis Country Survive in the Time of Ebola? Issues Arising with Liberia’s Post-war Recovery” – article by Jordan Ryan in the latest edition of the Harvard International Review. You could change the names in the article to names found in Sierra Leone and the article will apply equally to Sierra Leone. I suspect […]
The Economics of Ebola: some new facts
Just read Rachel Glennerster’s new post summarizing the results of a new survey on how Sierra Leoneans are faring during the Ebola crisis. “For much of the last two months Tavneet Suri and I have been working with the Sierra Leone team at Innovations for Poverty Action, the World Bank, and Statistics Sierra Leone on […]
Christmas with Ebola, is Ebola without Christmas.
In Sierra Leone, the month of December has always been the month of festivities. The country has a majority of Muslims but its unique live-and-let-live culture established since the turn of the 19th Century allows both Christians and Muslims to celebrate Christmas as they do for the Muslim holidays, but December is special. The weather […]
Sierra Leone’s Capacity Problems
In a recent discussion I had with one of our donor partners, I argued that the view that Sierra Leone suffers from capacity weaknesses and therefore needs to build capacity; in short train more people and give them more qualifications, is rather simplistic and in some cases just plain wrong. This is not to say […]
Sierra Leone Student Refused Accommodation In UK Over Ebola Fears
No country in the world has succeeded in isolating itself from illegal immigrants i.e. non-nationals. Similarly discrimination by nationalities of worst hit nations cannot be a realistic solution. On the contrary if E-infected people are forced to go underground in foreign countries the consequences for that currently E-free country could be catastrophic. The only solution, […]