This is the report of an independent evaluation undertaken on behalf of the Government of Sierra Leone and 4 Development Partners, which have provided General or Sector Budget Support (GBS or SBS) over 2002-2015. It covers all GBS and SBS operations undertaken in this period by the African...

This Final Report presents the outcome of the “Thematic global evaluation of the Commission support to decentralisation processes”. The Evaluation was commissioned by the DG DEVCO Evaluation Unit and was implemented between January 2010 and February 2012. The purpose of the evaluation is to...

The purpose of the research was the exploration of macroeconomic determinants of economic growth in Sierra Leone for the period, 1980- 2018, and whether there exist an association between the determinants and economic growth is long-term and short-term. The research methodology was quantitative...

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...

This study uses Cointegration and an Error Correction Model to investigate the responsiveness of household consumption to changes in income in Sierra Leone covering the periods 1980 to 2020. The study relies on annual time series data on consumption and gross domestic product from the World...

Given the need to analyze how economies respond to economic shocks, it has become prudent for economic policymakers to design increasingly sophisticated and dynamic tools to predict economic performance in the presence of shocks. This study designs a simple macro-econometric model of the Sierra...

The African continent needs $68-108 billion in new financing each year to bridge its critical infrastructure gaps, according to President Adesina of the African Development Bank. Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) calculates that climate change adaptation alone will cost Africa up...

This study delves into the repercussions of fiscal policies, particularly those marked by high expenditure financed by monetary means, on key macroeconomic indicators in Sierra Leone. Employing a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model, the analysis illuminates how shocks in one...

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...