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Publication - Working Paper
The political economy of health epidemics: Evidence from the Ebola outbreak
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Publication - Project Report
Natural resource sector FDI, government policy, and economic growth: Quasi-experimental evidence from Liberia
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Project
How to increase the adoption of civil service reform? The role of training and incentives
Many developing countries suffer from ineffective public service delivery. A growing literature sheds light on reforms which can improve public service quality. For instance, existing studies focus on showing how performance‐based incentives can improve the performance of frontline civil servants working in health facilities, schools, or collecting taxes. Also, a large...
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Case Study: State
The economic impacts of Ebola
Our initiative provided data about the economics impacts of the Ebola crisis, allowing us to provide evidence-backed policy advice to Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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Project
Mapping informal financial flows in the artisanal mining sector: The cases of Sierra Leone and Liberia
In recent years, the economic importance and formalisation of artisanal gold mining has taken centre stage in policy discussions on rural economic development in West Africa. Research has shown that despite being associated with a host of environmental, health and safety and social concerns, the sector provides a livelihood for hundreds of thousands of poor people in the...
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Blog post
Five key challenges facing Liberia’s transport industry: Paving the way to market integration
Improving transport connectivity and increasing market integration could improve competition, trade, and potential for growth in small Liberian firms. Transport costs are a key factor in determining market integration. Consequently, keeping transport costs low is critical to economic development, particularly for small firms situated in isolated local economies. In Liberia...
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Blog post
Intra-national trade costs and economic isolation
High intra-national trade costs prevent market integration, so reducing them can help develop local economies in remote parts of a country. Building transport infrastructure alone is insufficient. The case of Liberia demonstrates that intra-national transport costs remain significant due to high vehicle prices, vehicle repair costs, credit constraints, and...
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Project
Yes to peace: Preventing election violence in Liberia
In 2017, Liberia will be conducting its third general election after its civil conflict. Liberia is among a handful of African countries that could experience election violence during elections this year. In fact, security officials speculate that electoral violence in the forthcoming general elections is perhaps of a greater likelihood than at any time since 2005 given...
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Blog post
What are development corridor strategies, and do they work?
Across large swaths of the developing world, a new trend is taking hold: governments are targeting public and private investments in specific geographic areas in the hopes of creating spatial “development corridors.” These strategies are guided by the belief that concentrating and co-locating infrastructure investments in specific locations can create clusters of...
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Project
The socio-economic impacts of natural resource concessions in Liberia
The Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf administration has made natural resource concessions a key part of Liberia’s economic growth strategy. It has granted somewhere between 21% and 38% of the country’s land to investors in the hopes that they will stimulate economic activity in the agriculture and mining sectors, increase employment in rural areas, and build and maintain...