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Project
The impact of the Ebola outbreak on firms in Liberia
Most of the estimates of the economic impact of Ebola have been either anecdotal or top-down using national accounts. We do not yet have survey data on how individual firms are being hit by the epidemic and how they are responding, including the effect on workers and the orientation of the firms themselves to potentially new business opportunities. We propose collecting...
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Using SMS data to improve Ebola models and estimate the impact of Ebola on healthcare seeking behaviour in Liberia
The current Ebola crisis of West Africa has ravaged the health and social sectors of affected countries and has also had pronounced effects on the economies of these countries. Liberia has seen the most deaths, at 4,808 to date. Despite the significance of the outbreak, there has been little data available to measure the extent to which this outbreak has directly affected...
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Population-based surveys to inform Ebola recovery
Liberia currently faces the dual challenge of rebuilding after the Ebola outbreak while remaining vigilant to prevent its resurgence. In this process, the Liberian government and humanitarian providers face a dearth of information to inform their efforts to support Ebola recovery. To respond to citizen needs in the aftermath of the Ebola crisis, providers need...
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Blog post
Will West Africa’s common external tariff protect consumers?
The lofty objective of ECOWAS is to promote economic integration in West Africa. The much anticipated uniform tariff for ECOWAS economies is due to become reality in January 2015, but questions about its implementation still need to be addressed
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Publication - Project Memo
The economic implications of Ebola (Project Memo)
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Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences
This extended memorandum identifies episodes of sustained double-digit growth in real GDP, defined as a compound annual growth rate of 10 percent or more over a period of 8 years or longer. Using a measure of real GDP reported in the World Development Indicators, we identify 33 country-episodes of double-digit growth since 1960. The narrative of each episode is presented,...
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Compensations and Customary Rights in the Context of the Concessionaire Companies: An Economic Approach
The present report deals with the question of how to compensate rural communities affected by the operations of concessionaire companies in Liberia. Addressing this concern requires that we successively look at the three following issues: (1) how communities are being informed and involved in the process of negotiation leading to concession agreements; (2) how to design the...
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Optimising Real Estate Tax in Liberia: Implications for Revenue Performance and Economic Growth
Real estate tax is considered to have strong economic efficiency, equity and governance benefits; however, its administrative and political costs prevent it from being used extensively in many developing countries. In Liberia, real estate tax revenues are less than 0.2 percent of GDP, compared to an average of 0.6 percent of GDP in developing countries, suggesting that...
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Increasing Property Tax Compliance in Liberia
This project is a pilot for a full randomised control trial research project on understanding factors that affect tax compliance. In many developing countries with weak state capacity, the first order question in tax compliance is the extensive margin as a large proportion of taxable individuals and firms remain outside the tax base; however, the tax compliance...
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Multimedia Item - Video
Growth Week 2014 - Country Session: Liberia & Sierra Leone