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
Enterprise Africa! researcher Karol Boudreaux discusses hunger in Ethiopia and the land tenure policies that could help to alleviate it in The Australian.
On January 16, Reason.tv's Michael C. Moynihan and Nick Gillespie sat down with Karol Boudreaux, a senior research fellow at The Mercatus Center's Enterprise Africa! project and Stephen Schwartz, head of the Center for Islamic Pluralism and author of the new book The Other Islam.
In a wide-ranging and freewheeling discussion,…
In her column, Market panacea fails in Africa (October 7), Mathabo le Roux claims that the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) has, in its 2008 report on Africa’s economic d evelopment, admitted the failure of market-driven reforms on the continent, particularly in agriculture. These reforms have, Le…
With violence and instability at home, thousands of desperate Zimbabweans have fled to South Africa seeking refuge, only to confront deportation and further violence. Last week, Human Rights Watch, a New York-based human rights group, urged South Africa to stop deportations of Zimbabweans and come to the aid of their…
With violence and instability at home, thousands of desperate Zimbabweans have fled to South Africa seeking refuge, only to confront deportation and further violence. Last week, Human Rights Watch, a New York–based human rights group, urged South Africa to stop deportations of Zimbabweans and come to the aid of their…
How do you build other strong supporting institutions so that the economy can grow, so that people can flourish, so that children have a brighter future? What are some of those other institutions that are needed throughout Africa and the developing world?
It's things like having secure rights to property; being…
Three Mercatus Scholars contributed chapters to the Adam Smith Institute's "A Beginner's Guide to Liberty," the Institute's accessible introduction to the importance of liberty for human flourishing.
