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The in-hospital mortality rates of slaves and freemen: evidence from Touro infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855 - 1860
Pritchett, Jonathan; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2008
Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of free and enslaved patients. Despite a higher mortality rate in the general population, slaves were significantly less likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze...
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The evolution of the racial gap in education and the legacy of slavery
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2011
determined by the initial gap. We obtain these results with 2SLS estimates where slavery is used as an instrument for the initial … gap. The excludability of slavery is preliminarily established by instrumenting it with the share of disembarked slaves … initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …
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The impact of the global financial crisis on the economy of Sierra Leone: A report for UNDP Freetown and the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Republic of Sierra Leone
Weeks, John - 2009
[Global crisis and poverty prevention] Most recent statistics indicate that the global financial crisis will cause a fall in export earnings in Sierra Leone of approximately fifteen percent in 2009 compared to 2008. A regression-based model estimates that this decline in exports earnings could...
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The role of militias and other paramilitaries in African (un)civil wars
Møller, Bjørn - 2006
Recent violent conflicts in Africa have seen extensive use of very irregular armed forces by governments. Examples include the use of Kamajors in Sierra Leone, Janjaweed and other militias in Sudan and Interahamwe militias in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The paper, originally written for a...
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Impact of foreign aid on economic growth in Sierra Leone: Empirical analysis
Kargbo, Philip Michael - 2012
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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Success when stars align: Public financial management reforms in Sierra Leone
Tavakoli, Heidi; Cessay, Ismaila; Cole, Winston - 2014
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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Bringing regional politics to the study of security sector reform: Army reform in Sierra Leone and Iraq
Almohad, Selman - 2019
This paper argues that the scholarship on security sector reform (SSR) tends to neglect regional politics in the formulation of its concepts and policies, and that this neglect deprives the study of SSR of a valuable analytical level. It therefore uses comparative historical analysis and the...
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Predicting disaggregated tourist arrivals in Sierra Leone using ARIMA model
Jackson, Emerson Abraham; Tamuke, Edmund - 2019
This study have uniquely mad use of Box-Jenkins ARIMA models to address the core of the threes objectives set out in view of the focus to add meaningful value to knowledge exploration. The outcome of the research have testify the achievements of this through successful nine months out-of-sample...
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Systemic health care failure as a symptom of Market Failure in Sierra Leone
Jackson, Emerson Abraham - In: Southern African Journal of Public Health … (2019) Forthcoming
The article has provided an unbiased discourse on the subject of market failure, with focus on the health service system (HSS) in Sierra Leone. It is acknowledged that market failure in the country’s HSS is a real concern that has gone unchecked for decades by successive governments. In view...
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What crisis produces: Dangerous bodies, Ebola heroes and resistance in Sierra Leone
Enria, Luisa - 2017
This article explores the implications of framing an event as a 'crisis' through the case study of the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork during and after the outbreak. It traces how Ebola came to be declared an emergency, and the processes, which led to...
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