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| Title: | Sierra Leone: Urban-Elite Bias, Atrocity and Debt |
| Author: | Riddell, Barry |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
| Volume: | 32 |
| Issue: | 103 |
| Period: | March |
| Pages: | 115-133 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Sierra Leone |
| Subjects: | social inequality civil wars World Bank IMF debt Urbanization and Migration Economics and Trade Politics and Government Development and Technology |
| External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240500121032 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=T41221MT65507631 |
| Abstract: | Sierra Leone experienced the violent results of an undeclared civil war which lasted over a decade (1991-2002). The violence largely resulted from a set of programmes and policies of the country's postcolonial government which produced pronounced and obscene elite-peasant disparities. With the termination of hostilities, the IMF and the World Bank have financially assisted the country's recovery and rehabilitation through a set of programmes. These were dominated by the IMF's Post-Conflict scheme and the jointly-administered (IMF/WB) Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative. This paper interrogates the documents of these international financial institutions and queries such data in two senses: has the nation's development agenda been able to recover from the debt overhang, and are the fundamental causes of the country's violent past addressed? The experience of Sierra Leone provides a window into the operations of the international financial institutions as they impose neoliberal globalization in the Third World. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract, edited] |
