The importance of Adam Smith for the development of economic thought can hardly be exaggerated. As the economist Kenneth Boulding once put it, the great Scot can be rightly understood as “being both the...

By Mahmud Tim Kargbo Informed observers and commentators on the Sierra Leonean socio-economic and political terrain, indigenous and foreign, all agree on one fact regarding the swift collapse of the national economy after late President...

First published on Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - Sierra Leone Live Ombudsman Francis Gabbidon has said that Sierra Leone will never catch up to compete effectively with other African countries while its economy continues to...

In Sierra Leone, whenever the country gets badly hit by hardship and an enormous lack of food, we hear politicians talk about the need for citizens to go back to farming. We even see...

A few months back, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in Sierra Leone increased to 366.30 in December from 358.70 in November; source: Statistics Sierra Leone. Inflation of 13.3% for the Sierra Leone economy indicated...