How multinationals exploited a health crisis to accelerate deforestation in Liberia

Sonno, Tommaso and Zufacchi, Davide (2022) How multinationals exploited a health crisis to accelerate deforestation in Liberia. Africa at LSE (18 Mar 2022). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

The way multinational enterprises conduct themselves during periods of crisis, such as an epidemic, is of key importance in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. A health crisis may alter the short-run incentives of some multinationals, encouraging rapacity towards natural resources. Tommaso Sonno and Davide Zufacchi explain that this is what happened in Liberia during the Ebola epidemic in 2014-15.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/
Additional Information:	© 2022 The Authors
Divisions:	Centre for Economic Performance
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Date Deposited:	28 Jun 2022 10:54
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2024 03:28
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/114648

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