Dispossession, exploitation or employment? Youth livelihoods and extractive industry investment in Sierra Leone

Futures

Volumn 62, Issue , 2014, Pages 75-82

  Maconachie, Roy ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Kono District; Livelihoods; Mining; Sierra Leone; Youth

Indexed keywords

ARTISANAL MINING; CAPITAL; DIAMOND; EMPLOYMENT; INVESTMENT; LABOR MARKET; SMALL SCALE MINING; YOUNG POPULATION;

SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 84898919749     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2013.08.003     Document Type: Article

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