1. Economic Implications of the Ebola Epidemic
... will suffer the economic consequences. The tiny post-conflict country has been growing at upwards of 8% over the last couple of years, but won't expect anything like that kind of luck now. Finance minister Amara Konneh says that's mostly because of damage done to mining, agriculture and service industries, as investors evacuate foreign workers, borders close, and international flights are suspended ... than the disease itself. Not that we'll ever know the number because we'll not be able to tell those deaths from the ones that already routinely occur from bad health care, impure water a...
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