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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the Sierra Leonean trade in “conflict diamonds” which has fuelled a rebel war in the country for more than a decade. In particular, it crucially asks whether the reform of the diamond trade by international legislative efforts to develop an...
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Purpose – The study aims to investigate the factors that influence banks' loan supply in Sierra Leone. More specifically, it seeks to look into the effects of risk premium, leverage ratio and credit risk on banks' loan supply in Sierra Leone. Design/methodology/approach – Using annual bank...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the structural factors responsible for why “donor darling” has not changed the pitfalls of stagnation and lifted post‐conflict Sierra Leone out of poverty. Design/methodology/approach – The study adopts a bottom‐up approach...
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Purpose The paper examines financial resilience responses/capacities of governments from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ghana in relation to COVID-19. It highlights the governments’ fiscal, budgetary and actions as either anticipatory or coping mechanisms towards the pandemic....
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Purpose – This paper aims to identify gaps and critical issues in policy framework for infrastructure debt fund (IDF … infrastructure projects. However, infrastructure development is linked to availability of equity and debt funds to finance these … projects. IDF is an instrument which aims at enabling financing of infrastructure. Design/methodology/approach – The …
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provision. Design/methodology/approach – Quantitative insight for the paper is derived from the Infrastructure Online Database …. The Infrastructure Journal ( IJ ) Online Database profiles PFI/PPP deals around the world depicting the key actors … frameworks for essential infrastructure conducive to the next economic/financial cycle. Originality/value – This study is …
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Purpose The infrastructure investment is one important source of economic growth in China in the past three decades …/methodology/approach The authors first describe the conceptual link between the transportation infrastructure and rural development, which …- and long-run impacts of the transportation infrastructure on rural development, in terms of cereal yield and per capita …
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infrastructure domains (Roads, Rails, Tunnels, etc.); to check the current functions and capabilities of a buildingSMART Data …
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infrastructure. The article presents a new methodology to enrich the IFC model for an infrastructure, in particular, for the scope of … the current IFC model. The next IFC development phases, dedicated to other infrastructure domains, will be based on this …
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