{"id":3815,"date":"2019-07-17T08:39:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T08:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3815"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:25","slug":"sierra-leone-least-committed-to-reduce-inequality-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/17\/sierra-leone-least-committed-to-reduce-inequality-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone Least Committed To Reduce Inequality, Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Ishmael Sallieu Koroma<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Commitment to Reducing\nInequality Index (CRII) by West African governments, a report released by Oxfam\nWest Africa, has rated Sierra Leone to be among the least committed countries\nto reduce inequalities and poverty in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report which was the\nfirst ever on commitment to reducing inequality-regional and national\n-respectively compared and ranked West African governments&#8217; commitment on three\n(3) pillars-public spending, taxation and labour markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the report,\na regional analysis of agriculture and land rights was launched yesterday by\nOxfam Sierra Leone in collaboration with Movement Against Inequality (MAISL)\nand the Institute for Governance Reform (IGR) at the IGR head office on\nWilkinson Road in Freetown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading the Press release\nto the press, Oxfam Sierra Leone Influencing Coordinator, Nuru Deen said Sierra\nLeone is the most unequal country across the African continent, with some of\nthe most extreme divides between the rich and poor in the world, with\ninequality at a crisis level. <a href=\"http:\/\/slconcordtimes.com\/sierra-leone-least-committed-to-reduce-inequality-poverty\/\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ishmael Sallieu Koroma The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index (CRII) by West African governments, a report released by Oxfam West Africa, has rated Sierra Leone to be among the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}