Enterprise Africa

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Enterprise Africa

Enterprise Africa seeks to develop and disseminate knowledge about enterprise-based solutions to poverty and the institutional conditions that enable entrepreneurs to improve the quality of lives for themselves and their communities.  Through rigorous case analyses developed through intensive hands-on field research, Enterprise Africa scholars access local knowledge to put forward important institutional lessons about what works in development policy.

EXPERTS

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Karol Boudreaux

  • Mercatus Center Senior Research Fellow
  • Lead Researcher, Enterprise Africa!
Karol Boudreaux is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, lead researcher for Enterprise Africa!, a research project that is investigating, analyzing, and reporting on enterprise-based solutions to poverty in Africa, is a member of the faculty of the George Mason University School of Law, and a member of the Working Group on Property Rights of the U.N.'s Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor.
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Paul Dragos Aligica

  • Senior Research Fellow
  • Faculty Fellow, James Buchanan Center for Political Economy at George Mason University
Paul Dragos Aligica is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center, a faculty fellow at the James Buchanan Center for Political Economy at George Mason University, and an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute.
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Tyler Cowen

  • General Director
  • Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Tyler Cowen is the general director of Mercatus and the Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University. Tyler is the author of numerous books, articles, and newspaper columns and co-writes a daily blog at www.marginalrevolution.com.

Temba Nolutshungu

  • Director, Free Market Foundation of South Africa
Temba Nolutshungu joined the training division of the Free Market Foundation in 1989 and was appointed Director in 1990. He played a prominent role in the Black Consciousness Movement in his youth and was detained on two occasions. He is also a Director of the V&A Waterfront.
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Daniel Sacks

  • Research Associate, Global Prosperity Initiative and Enterprise Africa
Daniel Sacks is a research associate at the Mercatus Center.
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PUBLISHED RESEARCH

Economic Affairs
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Book Review: Paul Collier's Wars, Guns, and Votes

Daniel Sacks | Dec 2009
In his latest book, Wars, Guns and Votes, Oxford development economist Paul Collier makes the case for the use of military intervention in developing countries. However, Collier’s call for international military interventions raises a number of practical concerns, such as the current unpopularity of international military action and the lack of proof that free and fair elections necessarily lead to better outcomes.
Review of Austrian Economics
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Book Review of Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

Johan van der Walt | Nov 16, 2009
Dambisa Moyo’s new book, Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa, has received a great deal of attention in the last few months. Moyo’s book is a must-read for any person interested in the question of why some countries are rich while others remain stagnant or poor.
Mercatus Policy Series
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Halting Hunger

Long-term Solutions to Systemic Problems in African Agriculture
Daniel Sacks | Jul 2009
Government intervention and interference in agricultural markets prevents the growth of commercial agricultural sectors and decreases the ability of African farmers to improve their standards of living through agriculture.  To combat hunger and to encourage economic development, African governments need to embark on reforms that allow farmers to use agriculture to improve their lives.
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WORKING PAPERS

Land Reform as Social Justice: The Case of South Africa

Karol Boudreaux | Oct 2009
In his 1976 work Law, Legislation and Liberty, F.A. Hayek discusses the concept of social justice, pursued by redistributing resources acquired through an unplanned and impersonal market order, to increase the material equality or equality of outcome of the members of that order.  But, how would these prescriptions translate into actual policy making? What kinds of policies would correct past injustice but not work a new injustice?

The Role of Entrepreneurship in Conflict Reduction in the Post-Genocide Rwandan Coffee Industry

Jutta Tobias, Karol Boudreaux | Jun 2009
Entrepreneurship is widely acknowledged as a catalyst for poverty reduction and economic development. This paper presents evidence from a field survey conducted during the summer of 2008 among a sample of Rwanda’s emerging specialty coffee workers and reports on significant correlations between economic satisfaction and life satisfaction, as well as meaningful work contact with members from the other group with an attitude of reconciliation.

POLICY BRIEFS

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Land Tenure Security and Agricultural Productivity

Daniel Sacks, Karol Boudreaux | Sep 2009
Achieving land tenure reform is by no means an easy or quick process. However, the benefits over the long term can lead to substantial gains for smallholder farmers’ competitiveness.
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South Africa Election: Policy Recommendations for a New Government

Johan van der Walt, Karol Boudreaux | Mar 2009
As South Africa faces a new round of parliamentary elections in April 2009, the country confronts a host of difficult political challenges. This Mercatus on Policy provides recommendations for any new government on how to address some of the domestic and international challenges.
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Starving for Change

Daniel Sacks, Karol Boudreaux | Nov 2008
The United States government spends over two billion dollars a year on food aid, suppos­edly to help poor, hungry people around the world fight off starvation. However, much of this money is not helping the hungry, but instead supports U.S. farmers, shipping companies, and food manufacturers.
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MEDIA CLIPPINGS

AllAfrica.com

Empower Women Financially and Develop Communities

Karol Boudreaux | Dec 04, 2009
Karol Boudreaux discusses the role of women's empowerment in relation to the achievement of the UN's Millennium Development Goals in an article on AllAfrica.com

Karol Boudreaux on Fraser Fast Track

Karol Boudreaux | Jul 2009
Lead Researcher Karol Boudreaux recently appeared on Fraser Fast Track discussing whether foreign aid helps or hinders developing countries
The Australian

Bad policies, not weather, create famine

Karol Boudreaux, Julian Morris | Nov 17, 2009
Enterprise Africa! researcher Karol Boudreaux discusses hunger in Ethiopia and the land tenure policies that could help to alleviate it in The Australian.
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