Essays about: "ebola"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 22 essays containing the word ebola.

  1. 1. Anatomy of corruption in humanitarian assistance: a retrospective analysis of emergency response operations of the Liberia Red Cross Society (LRCS) to the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Liberia (2014 – 2016)

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Elisha Lawodo Bloe; [2023]
    Keywords : emergency response and recovery; humanitarian assistance; corruption; Ebola virus disease;

    Abstract : This study critically explores the pervasive issue of corruption in humanitarian assistance, focusing on the Liberia Red Cross Society (LRCS) during the Ebola outbreak in Liberia from 2014-2016. For a country grappling with broken infrastructure and fragile healthcare systems due to a 14-year-long civil war, the Ebola crisis in Liberia was an unprecedented disaster as evidenced by 10,672 recorded cases and 4,808 reported fatalities between 2014 and 2016. READ MORE

  3. 2. THE SUBALTERNS SING : MUSIC, AGENCY, AND THE POLITICS OF LIFE DURING THE EBOLA EPIDEMIC IN WEST AFRICA

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Amat Jeng; [2021]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The Ebola epidemic in 2014 was framed as the most serious humanitarian crisis that West Africa has faced since the beginning of this millennium. In Liberia and Sierra Leone, two countries that had just come out of civil wars less than twelve years ago, were the most affected. READ MORE

  4. 3. A study on the influence of CSR on Nordic stock performance during Covid-19

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Author : Arash Dabiri; Lisa Blenwall; [2021]
    Keywords : COVID-19; Exogenous shock; CSR; Stock performance; Trust;

    Abstract : The majority of prior studies have found that firms with a high CSR rating have enjoyed higher returns on their stocks than comparable firms with lower CSR during financial crises, generally defined as having low societal trust levels. This effect is more prevalent in high trust societies such as the Nordics. READ MORE

  5. 4. 'A Perfect Storm' A case study of how the Ebola response played into conflict dynamics in Sierra Leone

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Cathrine Barklin; [2020]
    Keywords : Civil War; Ebola Outbreak; Humanitarian Response; Protracted Social Conflict; Sierra Leone;

    Abstract : Between 2014 and 2016, West Africa was struck by the largest ever Ebola epidemic. In Sierra Leone, the outbreak occurred only about a decade after the end of an eleven-year long civil war, which left the country with little capacity to contain the virus. READ MORE

  6. 5. Socio-Economic Determinants of Ebola Outbreak Intensity and Severity: A Study of the West-African Outbreak in 2013-2016

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Raoul Herbert; [2020]
    Keywords : Ebola; EVD; public health; SES; Economic History; Epidemics; Disease; Guinea; Liberia; Sierra Leone; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This study uses a specifically constructed sub-national dataset on Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak cases, deaths, and CFR in order to look at the question of how important various socio-economic factors were in determining the intensity and severity of the 2013-2016 EVD outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The results of the OLS model shows that the socio-economic conditions in different regions of the country were important indicators of the number of reported cases and deaths. READ MORE