Notes from Sierra Leone’s Alluvial Diamond Industry

For resource-rich countries like Sierra Leone to attain any sustainable development, issues related to the criminalization of natural resource extraction must first be addressed. For decades, scholars and policymakers have pondered how best to manage natural resources for the betterment of national sustainable development. For some scholars, the negative relationship between commodity endowment and socioeconomic growth is what prevents national sustainable development. Others go further and i

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