{"id":1980,"date":"2015-06-02T17:21:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T16:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scolma.org\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2015-06-02T17:21:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T16:21:37","slug":"beyond-ebola-economic-development-in-guinea-liberia-and-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/?p=1980","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Ebola: Economic Development in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 align=\"center\"><img class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/b7ae4d4d8f18ef3ebd0323d80\/images\/2eb8ac59-51a7-44ec-a7ac-b839a0053e7e.jpg\" width=\"564\" align=\"left\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\">Africa Research Institute invites you to<\/h4>\n<h2 align=\"center\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b7ae4d4d8f18ef3ebd0323d80&amp;id=6401385ea2&amp;e=7f8a953191\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Beyond Ebola:<\/b> Economic Development in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone<\/a><\/h2>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><b>Thursday 25th June\u00a02015\u00a0from 6pm to 8pm<\/b><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.us1.list-manage2.com\/track\/click?u=b7ae4d4d8f18ef3ebd0323d80&amp;id=dccc937107&amp;e=7f8a953191\" target=\"_blank\">Africa Research Institute,\u00a055 Tufton Street, London, SW1P 3QL<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Speakers:<\/b><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey\u00a0<\/b>\u2013<b>\u00a0<\/b>Liberian academic, activist and\u00a0author based at SOAS, University of London<\/li>\n<li><b>Biro Diallo<\/b>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0General Manager Operations, Rio Tinto Simandou<\/li>\n<li><b>Ade Daramy\u00a0<\/b>\u2013\u00a0Chair &amp;\u00a0Spokesperson for the UK-Sierra Leone Ebola Task Force<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The World Bank estimates that the Ebola epidemic and plunging iron ore and bauxite prices will cut the forecast GDP of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone by at least $1.6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Restoring investor confidence in the region is\u00a0crucial. So too is developing economic strategies that promote agriculture, create jobs and better reflect informal employment practices. Despite significant GDP growth in the three countries from 2011 onwards, no &#8220;trickle down&#8221; effect was discernible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.us1.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=b7ae4d4d8f18ef3ebd0323d80&amp;id=0054d30e54&amp;e=7f8a953191\" target=\"_blank\">Join us on 25\u00a0June<\/a>\u00a0as we host an expert panel discussion to identify practical steps that need to be taken to promote inclusive and sustainable economic recovery in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.us1.list-manage2.com\/track\/click?u=b7ae4d4d8f18ef3ebd0323d80&amp;id=dccc937107&amp;e=7f8a953191\" target=\"_blank\">Africa Research Institute,\u00a055 Tufton Street, London, SW1P 3QL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drinks and light refreshments will be served<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Registration is essential as space is limited<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b><a href=\"http:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.us1.list-manage2.com\/track\/click?u=b7ae4d4d8f18ef3ebd0323d80&amp;id=daebda6972&amp;e=7f8a953191\" target=\"_blank\">Book your place<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Join the conversation\u00a0online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.us1.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=b7ae4d4d8f18ef3ebd0323d80&amp;id=8885129efb&amp;e=7f8a953191\" target=\"_blank\">#BeyondEbola<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Research Institute invites you to \u00a0Beyond Ebola: Economic Development in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone Thursday 25th June\u00a02015\u00a0from 6pm to 8pm Africa Research Institute,\u00a055 Tufton Street, London, SW1P 3QL Speakers: Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Liberian academic, activist and\u00a0author based at SOAS, University of London Biro Diallo\u00a0\u2013\u00a0General Manager Operations, Rio Tinto Simandou Ade Daramy\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Chair &amp;\u00a0Spokesperson for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1988,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions\/1988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}