Sierra Leone locked down early to contain covid, but at a high price

Humphreys, Macartan, Meriggi, Niccoló, Solís Arce, Julio S., Voors, Maarten and Yam, Emilie (2020) Sierra Leone locked down early to contain covid, but at a high price. LSE COVID-19 Blog (20 Oct 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Sierra Leone locked down early and appears to have COVID-19 under control. But the country has paid a very high economic price, with the vast majority of people missing meals or eating less. Julio S. Solís Arce (WZB Berlin Social Science Center), Macartan Humphreys (WZB/Columbia), Niccoló Meriggi (International Growth Centre), Maarten Voors (Wageningen University) and Emilie Yam (IGC) warn that if the virus begins to spread again, these sacrifices may be hard to justify and replicate.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Date Deposited:	03 Dec 2020 11:30
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2024 02:34
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/107272

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