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After its 14-year civil war, Liberia worked with multiple donors and partners to restore security. This paper explores … the Liberia National Police's innovative efforts to create a more gender-sensitive police service and describes the … international and domestic support it received in doing so. In particular, the paper analyses Liberia National Police's efforts to …
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Sierra Leone been more successful in the reform of its armed forces than Liberia has after the end of the Mano River Basin … the earlier input of key local actors made implementation less difficult. In Liberia the transition regime was built on a …
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examine how two legal empowerment programmes in Liberia navigated this tension between equity and peace. …
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weaken Liberia's patriarchal norms and the extent to which gender relations have been reconstructed after the conflict. We …
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-conflict economy as a system. In this paper I use the case of production firms operating in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, during the …
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the exploitation it has experienced whilst 'doing business' with foreign entities in the past. Using Liberia as a case … study, the author examines the legal framework governing telecommunications in Liberia. This study argues that Liberia …
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This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on economic growth in Sierra Leone, a country where an empirical econometric study on aid effectiveness is yet to exist. Using a triangulation of approaches involving the ARDL bounds test approach and the Johansen maximum likelihood approach to...
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Since the end of the civil war, the Government of Sierra Leone has made substantial progress in strengthening public financial management. Improvements have been achieved across all aspects of the budget cycle and are particularly notable with regard to budget execution functions. The main...
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Using data from Sierra Leone, I explore the role of cognitive ability in sorting across sectors and the importance of perceptions in the employment decision-making process. Crucial to the analysis is the introduction of the aid-industry/development sector as a 'third sector', which is shown to...
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Development assistance funding by international donors is rarely channelled to/through local actors. While there are strong normative and practical arguments for localizing funding, progress has been piecemeal as donors are largely left to their own devices to decide how, when, where, and how...
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