Sierra Leone Social Factors

I have been hired from the international division of a multinational corporation to determine whether or not the company should build a manufacturing plant in Sierra Leone in order to produce consumer goods. My research will be based on a variety of social, economic, and political factors.

The first factors based on my research that will be discussed are the social factors that take place in Sierra Leone. As a result of high population growth and a deadly civil war that ended in the year 2002, poverty still remains widespread throughout the country. This information is important because the severe economic that went with civil war and social unrest destroyed the social and physical base of this country. This is bad for the building
It is important for me to know the population of this country because of taxation, the process of building a manufacturing plant, and future employment, and how much the amount of spending would be. This will determine how many workers will be working in the building it is also made up of an astonishing diversity of ethnic groups. Sierra Leone growth rate is about 2.33%. The rapid growth can also be a bad thing because we do not want to be overpopulated with so many people and not have enough jobs to give out everyone.

My next set of factors that I have researched are the economic facts in Sierra Leone. The GDP in Sierra Leone continues to grow but in 2014 the growth has slowed down 6.0% due to the Ebola outbreak analysis shows that economic growth has slowed down to 6.0% in 2014 this is a threat to the corporation because we can't build a plant and have people come out to work. People would be afraid to come out because no one wants to catch the virus and bring it back to their families and eventually die, poverty would be worse than it already
In Sierra Leone it is generally hard for business investors to invest in companies because the crime rate is high and they are very afraid that their product and business will not do as well or they might even get robbed. “Nighttime robberies, assaults, petty street crime, and home invasions are common. Most candidates, expatriates, foreign businesses, and wealthy Sierra Leoneans rely on 24-hour private security guards or armed SLP Operational Support Division officers to protect residences and other property.”(OSAC.GOV) This is a bad thing because the people will not feel safe, they would feel they have to walk around with something every day to work because they feel like will get robbed. I do not want the workers to get discouraged because of the crime rate being so high. Everyone has the right to education. The government and civil society in Sierra Leone recognize this, but with half a million children being out of school out of a total population of 6 million and a large number of youth with no skills, there is still a long way to go. With the education system not being as strong as it should be the youths turn to the streets and try to sell or trade something to make a living to provide for their families. Some turn to a life of crime and prostitution and that leads to a number of problems within the country, like teen