This paper focuses on conducting research in conflict or post-conflict areas and dilemmas faced by researchers when visiting these places. It outlines some of the practical, methodological, normative and ethical issues that may engulf a researcher’s mind prior to or while visiting these...

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper focusing on issues of survey and sample design with regard to internal migration data collecting in developing countries - covers methodology, questionnaire characteristics, choice of respondent, sampling frames and clusters, tracing techniques, etc., Presents case...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the comparative advantages of construction techniques using sandcrete and clay bricks for residential construction in the construction industry of Sierra Leone - examines capital intensive vs. Labour intensive technique, costs, use of energy, small scale...

ILO pub. Working paper on the impact of multinational enterprises on employment in West Africa, comprising a case study of Liberia and Sierra Leone - discusses direct foreign investment trends (1970-1981), sectoral distribution, investment policies relating to agricultural sector and mining as...

This paper explores how different theoretical viewpoints on market integration and socioinstitutional settings alter farm viability assessments based on (semi)subsistence farm income measurements. The measurement of net farm income (NFI) is presented under two approaches: one based on...

This paper uses Johansen’s cointegration methodology to estimate Sierra Leone’s money long-run demand function for the 1964-2005 period. It finds a stable long-run relationship between the quantity of real money balances and its determinants. Secondly, all the estimated coefficients have...

The Mano River Union of Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone is turning 40. The MRU was founded in October 1973 with the principal aim of advancing economic development through trade integration. The organisation largely ceased activities during the civil wars that engulfed its...

This 2013 Article IV Consultation highlights that Sierra Leone has made significant progress in macroeconomic stabilization over the last five years. Real GDP growth averaged some 7 percent, driven by output expansion in agriculture, mining, and services; as well as the scaling-up of...