World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim has announced a $US160 million ($A173 million) two-year economic recovery plan to help impoverished Sierra Leone battle the worst Ebola outbreak on record.
After a closed-door meeting with President Ernest Bai Koroma in Freetown on Wednesday, Kim said the cash would go towards regional operations centres and emergency response teams in the hard-hit west and north of the country.
The aid would also focus on the country's floundering farming sector and rural job creation, he told reporters.
"We are concerned that agricultural production has dropped significantly as a result of the Ebola epidemic and we will help farmers recover by building feeder roads that connect small farmers to markets," Kim said.
"We must make sure that the Ebola epidemic is not followed by a food security crisis. We will work to improve basic infrastructure such as urban services and access to electricity that will help the well being of citizens."
The Ebola outbreak ravaging west Africa has claimed 6070 lives, according to the latest World Health Organisation update, with almost all of the deaths in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea.
In Sierra Leone, where an increase in cases in the west of the country is causing alarm, 1583 deaths out of 7312 suspected cases were reported as of November 30.
The World Bank said on Tuesday the fallout from Ebola will push Sierra Leone into recession next year.
The west African nation of six million grew at 11.3 per cent in the first half of the year, but has contracted since at a 2.8 per cent rate.
The country is expected to achieve four per cent growth this year and shrink by two per cent in 2015, while gross domestic product could fall $900 million next year, the bank said.
Food production will also decrease because planting was curtailed in the June-August period.
