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  1. Library Resource
    Food Security and COVID-19
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    June, 2021
    Kenya, Angola, Chad, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Guatemala, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Global

    June 4, 2021 -- An increasing number of countries are facing growing levels of acute food insecurity, reversing years of development gains. Even before COVID-19 reduced incomes and disrupted supply chains, chronic and acute hunger were on the rise due to various factors including conflict, socio-economic conditions, natural hazards, climate change and pests. COVID-19 impacts have led to severe and widespread increases in global food insecurity, affecting vulnerable households in almost every country, with impacts expected to continue through 2021 and into 2022.

  2. Library Resource
    July, 2014
    Sierra Leone

    This Investment Climate Policy Note
    (ICPN) for Sierra Leone evaluates the country's
    business environment by: (i) analyzing barriers to private
    sector investment and growth and how they vary among
    different types of firms; (ii) benchmarking Sierra
    Leone's investment climate and firm performance to that
    of other countries; and (iii) providing recommendations to
    promote and strengthen the private sector. The ICPN is

  3. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Sierra Leone

    The Strategic Environmental and Social
    Assessment (SESA) of the mining sector in Sierra Leone was
    undertaken in response to the Government of Sierra
    Leone's (GOSL) request for assistance in developing its
    minerals policy. The SESA will help meet long-term country
    development by integrating environmental and social
    considerations in mining sector reforms. The crucial aspect
    of the SESA process is that the environmental and social

  4. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Sierra Leone

    The topic of this paper is, in the words
    of one reviewer, 'one of the most discussed
    sociological and societal issues in African studies: the
    relationship between traditional institutions and new
    institutions'. Often in such discussions, the
    'traditional' and 'modern' are framed as
    if in opposition to one another, and debate centers on
    whether and to what extent tradition should cede to

  5. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Sierra Leone

    In 2004, the government of Sierra Leone
    opted for a rethink of its national governance arrangement
    by embarking on the resuscitation of democratically elected
    local government after 32 years experimenting with central
    government appointed district and municipal governments. The
    decision by the government and the people of Sierra Leone
    was driven by a primary consideration to address the
    country's seeming nonperformance in the areas of

  6. Library Resource
    September, 2014
    Sierra Leone

    This report presents an analysis of
    the Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs and policies
    which affect young children in Sierra Leone. This report is
    part of a series of reports prepared by the World Bank using
    the SABER-ECD framework. The country report includes
    analysis of early learning, health, nutrition and social and
    child protection policies and interventions in Sierra Leone,
    along with regional and international comparisons. The

  7. Library Resource
    May, 2013
    Sierra Leone

    This paper presents an assessment of the
    first phase (2008?2009) of Sierra Leone's cash for work
    program based on a qualitative and quantitative analysis
    examining program design features, main processes and
    impact. The assessment highlights that while cash for work
    was an appropriate crisis response, the challenge of
    achieving good targeting should not be underestimated.
    Findings from the assessment point to high inclusion errors

  8. Library Resource
    January, 2014
    Sierra Leone

    Sierra Leone is still recovering from a
    brutal civil war (1991-2002), fuelled in part by a valuable
    and easily extractable natural resource (diamonds). Sierra
    Leone now stands on the verge of an unprecedented period of
    economic growth, driven primarily by revenues from
    large-scale iron ore mining. Yet it continues to face many
    governance and developmental challenges. The rapid rise of
    the extractives governance agenda in Sierra Leone requires

  9. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Sierra Leone

    This First Phase Report on Sierra Leone
    growth poles is the result of a 9 months consultative
    process led by the Office of the President which
    specifically requested that the output of this diagnostic be
    in an engaging format. The fundamental concept of growth
    poles is that they exploit agglomeration economies and
    spillover effects to spread resulting prosperity from the
    core of the pole to the periphery. At the basis of this

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