Sierra Leone
IGC Sierra Leone partners with policymakers and other stakeholders to conduct frontier research in areas of importance to the government and its partners. Our research has been conducted in trade, governance, access to energy, and agricultural firms and will also focus on areas including tax policy, coordinating state agencies, and small-scale mining and green growth.
Featured content
Improving access to renewable energy in rural Sierra Leone
Policy brief
Data revolution: Transforming Sierra Leone
Video
Responding to COVID-19 in fragile states: The case of Sierra Leone
Blog
Freetown just implemented a new tax system that could quintuple revenue
Blog
Tracking the economic consequences and response to COVID-19 in Sierra Leone
Project
Simplifying property tax administration in Africa: Piloting a points-based valuation in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Policy brief
The impact of information on voter knowledge and engagement: Evidence from the 2012 elections in Sierra Leone
Project
The underlying causes of fragility and instability in Sierra Leone
Past Event
Roads to trade: The welfare effects of connecting mines versus cities
Project
An assessment of the agricultural cross border trade between Sierra Leone and her neighbours (Guinea and Liberia)
Project
About
Since the end of a ten-year conflict in 2002, Sierra Leone has experienced wide fluctuations in GDP, a negative trade balance, and fiscal deficit. Since 2008, The IGC Sierra Leone country programme has worked with local and national government to work on trade, governance, and growth in important sectors such as agriculture, energy, and mining. Projects include collaborating on strategy for accessing the US market through the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), collating research on the economic impacts of Ebola, and supporting Freetown City Council to increase own-source revenues through reforms to property tax and business licensing. Going forward, the IGC aims to continue to work on areas including tax policy, coordinating state agencies, agricultural firm productivity, energy access, small-scale mining and their interactions with the environment.
The country office has a close working relationship with the Ministries of: Finance; Planning and Economic Development; Energy; Agriculture and Forestry, as well as Trade and Industry, Freetown City Council, Kenema City Council, Kono District Council, and several government departments and agencies. In these relationships, the IGC has responded to research demands by engaging international experts and researchers to produce cutting-edge policy research.
Contact
37 Lightfoot Boston Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Email:[email protected]
Twitter:@IGC_SierraLeone
Staff
Mohamed Ibrahim Justice Ganawah
Country Economist, Sierra Leone, International Growth CentreAbou Bakarr Kamara
Senior Country Economist, Sierra Leone, International Growth Centre
Marian Marrah
Country Research and Operations Manager, Sierra Leone, International Growth Centre
Niccolò Meriggi
Country Economist, Sierra Leone, International Growth CentreFeatured Researchers
Rachel Glennerster
Associate Professor, University of Chicago
Katherine E Casey
Professor of Political Economy, Stanford University
Wilson Prichard
Researcher, International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD)
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Professor of Economics, Yale University
Maarten Voors
Associate Professor, Wageningen University
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