Wednesday 21 January 2015

World Bank Trims Estimates of Economic Damage of the Ebola Epidemic

Last October the World Bank estimated that the Ebola epidemic would result in (Dollar) 25 billion economic losses across all of West Africa. However, with Ebola now broadly contained, the World Bank trimmed its estimates of economic damage of the Ebola epidemic to (Dollar) 6.2 billion. But, warned that the three main affected countries, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone would still bear a heavy cost. For these three countries, where most of the infections and deaths have been ...

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