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The socio-economic impacts of natural resource concessions in Liberia

Natural resource sector FDI, government policy, and economic growth: Quasi-experimental evidence from Liberia

Project report 23 Apr 2018 State

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Jonas Bunte

Assistant Professor for Public Policy and Political Economy, University of Texas

Harsh Desai

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Kanio Bai Gbala

Researcher, Trust Africa

Bradley Parks

Executive Director of AidData & Research Faculty, College of William and Mary

Daniel Runfola

Senior Geospatial Scientist, AidData
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