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Economic Development, Environment, and the Internet
Development Gateway Country Overview on Sierra Leone (Washington, DC)
A clearinghouse of links to a wide variety of organizational websites with economic data. Originally founded by The World Bank, the DG has been an "independent", donor-funded organization since 2001.
Directory of Development Organizations: Sierra Leone (2007) (Bert
Wesselink, The Netherlands?) PDF format.
FAO Aquastat Programme -- Search: Sierra Leone, 2005
(Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome)
A profile of water resources in Sierra Leone. "The 'thirst' for water data is ever increasing and there is indeed considerable demand
for data on rural water use from national governments and development agencies. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
initiated an activity in 1993 to meet this demand with particular focus on irrigation. This resulted in the AQUASTAT Programme, the objective of
which is to generate rural water use data at country level in a systematic manner."
The International Monetary Fund: Sierra Leone Country Info
(Washington, DC)
Summaries, full length reports, and recent news. Note: Some documents are in PDF format, requiring
Adobe Acrobat.
MBendi AfroPaedia: Sierra Leone (MBendi Information Services, South Africa)
A basic economic & investment profile.
Ministry of Mineral Resources Government of Sierra Leone. (Freetown)
National Information and Communications Infrastructure for Sustainable Development in Africa:
Sierra Leone, 1999 (United Nations Economic
Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
General background, Internet connectivity data, and project information.
Network Startup Resource Center: Sierra Leone Internet Providers and Connectivity,
1994-99 (University of Oregon, Eugene)
Official Statistics Online Government of Sierra Leone (Freetown, Sierra Leone)
An official website of the government with census data from 2004 and 2005, recent consumer price index data, trade data, recent news, and related links.
Partnership Africa Canada: War and peace in Sierra Leone: diamonds, corruption,
and the Lebanese connection. (November 2002) By Lansana Gberie. -- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: PAC, 2002. (PDF format)
- "PAC [founded in 1986] is a coalition of Canadian and African NGOs working together on issues of human rights,
human security and sustainable development."
- See also: Diamonds and Human
Security
United Nations Development Programme -- Human Development Report Indicators for Sierra Leone (New York):
2005 Fact Sheet -and- Data
UNFPA--United Nations Population Fund: Sierra Leone Country Profile (New York)
United States Agencies on Sierra Leone
The World Bank on Sierra Leone (Washington, DC)
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