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   Political Economy of Extractives Governance in Sierra Leone

   January, 2014

   Sierra Leone

   capacity development

   decentralization

   fisheries

   food security

   forestry

   rural areas

   rural development

   rural population

   sustainable development

   urban areas

   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