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Cover -- CONTENTS -- CONTEXT -- RECENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS -- OUTLOOK AND RISKS -- POLICY DISCUSSIONS -- A. Managing Fiscal Risks -- B. Reforms to Promote More Effective Fiscal Policy -- C. Improving Debt Management -- D. Achieving Monetary and Price Stability -- E. Safeguarding Financial System Soundness -- PROGRAM MODALITIES AND FINANCING ASSURANCES -- STAFF APPRAISAL -- BOXES -- 1. Medium-Term National Development Plan-Education for All -- 2. Dynamics Between Fiscal Financing Needs and Available Financing Over 2018H2 -- 3. Progress Towards Domestic Arrears Clearance -- FIGURES -- 1. Real and External Indicators, 2012-18 -- 2. Fiscal Indicators, 2012-18 -- 3. Monetary and Financial Indicators, 2012-18 -- TABLES -- 1. Selected Economic Indicators, 2016-23 -- 2a. Fiscal Operations of the Central Government, 2016-23 (Billions of leone) -- 2b. Fiscal Operations of the Central Government, 2016-23 (Percent of non-iron ore GDP) -- 2c. Fiscal Operations of the Central Government on a Quarterly Basis, 2018-19 -- 3. Monetary Accounts, 2016-20 -- 4. Balance of Payments, 2016-23 -- 5. External Financing Requirements and Sources, 2017-21 -- 6. Indicators of Capacity to Repay the Fund, 2019-33 -- 7. Actual and Proposed Disbursements Under the ECF Arrangement, 2018-22 -- 8. Financial Soundness Indicators of the Banking System, 2012-18 -- 9. Quantitative Performance Criteria and Indicative Targets, 2018-20 -- 10. Structural Benchmarks -- ANNEX -- I. Sierra Leone-Capacity Development -- APPENDIX -- I. Letter of Intent -- Attachment I. Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies -- Attachment II. Technical Memorandum of Understanding.

Cover -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Executive summary -- A. General overview -- B. Key lessons that inform the new plan -- C. Principles guiding the formulation and implementation of the new plan -- D. Plan preparation process -- E. Socio-economic indicators and the situation of the macroeconomy -- F. Macroeconomic framework to guide plan implementation 2019-2023 -- G. Policy clusters and actions -- H. Cost of the plan -- I. Mitigating risks to plan implementation -- PART 1: CONTEXT -- 1. Background and introduction -- 1.1 Plan preparatory process -- 1.2 Organization of the document -- 2. Social and macroeconomic context of Sierra Leone -- 2.1 Current poverty profile -- 2.2 Population trends -- 2.3 Structure of the economy and growth diagnostic -- 2.4 Challenges to economic diversification, inclusive growth, and macroeconomic development -- 2.5 Medium-term macroeconomic policy framework for delivering the Medium-term National Development Plan -- PART 2: POLICY CLUSTERS -- Cluster One: Human capital development -- 1.1 Free quality basic and senior secondary education -- 1.2 Strengthening tertiary and higher education -- 1.3 Health care improvement -- 1.4 Environmental sanitation and hygiene -- 1.5 Social protection -- 1.6 Lands and housing -- Cluster Two: Diversifying the economy and promoting growth -- 2.1 Improving the productivity and commercialization of the agricultural sector -- 2.2 Improving the productivity and sustainable management of fisheries and the marine sector -- 2.3 Revitalizing the tourism sector -- 2.4 Manufacturing and services -- 2.5 Improving the management of oil and gas exploration/production -- 2.6 Improving the management of mineral resources -- 2.7 Promoting an inclusive rural economy -- Cluster Three: Infrastructure and economic competitiveness -- 3.1 Energy.

Cover -- CONTENTS -- RECENT DEVELOPMENTS -- A. Performance Under the ECF Arrangement -- B. Recent Economic Developments -- PROGRAM OBJECTIVES AND POLICIES -- A. Objectives and Risks -- B. Medium-term Macroeconomic Framework and Objectives -- C. Near-term Challenges -- D. The Structural Reform Agenda -- PROGRAM MONITORING AND FINANCING -- STAFF APPRAISAL -- FIGURES -- 1. Real and External Sectors, 2011-18 -- 2. Monetary and Financial Indicators, 2011-18 -- TABLES -- 1. Selected Economic Indicators, 2015-22 -- 2a. Fiscal Operations of the Central Government, 2016-22 (Billions of leone) -- 2b. Fiscal Operations of the Central Government, 2016-22 (Percent of non-iron ore GDP) -- 2c. Fiscal Operations of the Central Government on a Quarterly Basis, 2018-19 -- 3. Monetary Accounts, 2016-19 -- 4. Balance of Payments, 2016-22 -- 5. Indicators of Capacity to Repay the Fund, 2018-32 -- 6. Actual and Proposed Disbursement Under the ECF Arrangement, 2018-22 -- 7. Financial Soundness Indicators of the Banking System, 2012-18 -- 8. External Financing Requirements and Sources, 2015-19 -- 9. Quantitative Performance Criteria and Indicative Targets, 2018-19 -- 10. Prior Actions and Structural Benchmarks -- ANNEX -- I. External Sector Assessment -- APPENDIX -- I. Letter of Intent -- Attachment I. Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies -- Attachment II. Technical Memorandum of Understanding

On April 11, 1965, the Joint Commission of the Empress Shôken Fund granted an allocation to the Red Cross of Sierra Leone of 10,000 Swiss francs, to be utilized, in accordance with the wish expressed by that National Society, for the purchase of a Land Rover. We have pleasure in announcing that the Red Cross of Sierra Leone has now effected purchase of this vehicle, which will be used for work in three provincial branches which has until now beer seriously hampered by a lack of adequate means of transport.

After a Zelig-like four decades in Washington -- from Congress to the White House, from Langley to the Pentagon -- Leon Panetta is finally back in California, on his beloved walnut farm. When he was sworn in as CIA director in 2009, few would have guessed he'd be the man to track down Osama bin Laden. Pres Obama is dealing with a Congress -- and particularly a House of Representatives -- that is probably the most difficult he's seen in 50 years of public service. There is a crisis with regards to public service. Most of what has been developed over the last 10 years in terms of intelligence capability has not been done in backrooms. It's been done by Congress, which has basically endorsed these systems. Adapted from the source document.

"I am human and I consider nothing human alien to me": this statement has always struck me as preposterous. Of
course there are human creations and activities that are alienating, or worse. (The famous sentence in Terence's
comedy is in fact spoken in bad faith, as an excuse for an obtrusive neighbor to intervene in a matter that is none of
his business.) And to the inventory of alienating human productions one must add a good deal of American mass
culture—for its transformation of a citizenry into an audience; for its hardening of an entire population toward the most
obscene representations of violence, which we call entertainment; for its grotesque sexualization of an entire society,
which has the effect not least of degrading sex, even dirty sex; for the mental passivity inculcated in millions of people
who are helpless before its big and little screens...