The way multinational enterprises conduct themselves during periods of crisis, such as an epidemic, is of key importance in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. A health crisis may alter the short-run incentives of some multinationals, encouraging rapacity towards natural resources. Tommaso Sonno and Davide Zufacchi explain that this is what happened in Liberia during the Ebola epidemic in 2014-15.

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18 March 2022

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Africa at LSE

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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2022/03/18/how-multinationals-exploited-a-health-ebola-crisis-accelerate-deforestation-liberia-capitalism/

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