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Karol Boudreaux: Events
Legal Empowerment, Poverty Alleviation, and Process
April 29, 2008
In this presentation to the Foreign Service Institute at the US Department of State, Senior Research Fellow Karol Boudreaux discussed ways the law can be used to empower the poor and alleviate poverty.
Enterprise Africa! in London
February 4, 2008
From February 4-8, 2008, Enterprise Africa! Lead Researcher Karol Boudreaux and Mercatus Center Senior Research Fellow, Paul Dragos Aligica, visited London to meet with academics, policymakers, the media, and Africa stakeholders and discuss African development, economic and institutional reform, and strategies for developing credible property rights policies.
African Development: Promise and Peril
January 18, 2008
This is the transcript of a speech given by Enterprise Africa! Lead Researcher Karol Boudreaux at the Heritage Foundation
Urbanization and Informality in Africa's Housing Markets
November 20, 2007
In her presentation at the Southern Economic Association meeting, Senior Researcher Karol Boudreaux spoke about the growing trend in urbanization and informal housing in Africa. She focused on how governments have typically responded to these changing trends with policy initiatives that can frequently exacerbate the problems or can miss their targets because of political concerns.
Legal Empowerment, Poverty Alleviation, and Process
November 5, 2007
In this presentation to the USAID General Counsel Office, Senior Researcher Karol Boudreaux discussed ways the law can be used to empower the poor and alleviate poverty.
Southern Comfort: Economic Development in Latin America
October 16, 2007
The Mercatus Center, in conjunction with the Millennium Challenge Corporation, hosts a three day seminar on developing sustainable economies in Latin America and the role of foreign aid.
Conflict and Africa
July 12, 2007
Karol Broudreaux spoke about conflict resolution to a group of visiting African officials and NGO workers.
Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Namibia
June 8, 2007
This June, Karol Bourdeaux discussed her research on Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Namibia with staff at the Millennium Challenge Corporation.
Fighting Poverty through Entrepreneurship in Africa
April 27, 2007
This panel presentation, sponsored by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and reserved exclusively for congressional staff, is part of a week of Enterprise Africa! events in New York and Washington, DC.
Winds of Change: New Ideas in International Development
April 17, 2007
This three-day course will develop a framework for understanding the institutions and needs of developing nations, as well as the ability to identify policies that encourage prosperity in the developing world.
2007 Chief of Staff Retreat - Williamsburg, VA
February 23, 2007
The Mercatus Center’s annual Chief of Staff Retreat is the leading non-partisan, off-the-Hill gathering for senior congressional staff. The Retreat offers participants a chance to explore pioneering economic ideas, and interact across party lines in a comfortable and educational setting away from Capitol Hill.
Access Academia: Out of the Ivory Tower and onto the Hill
January 24, 2007
The Mercatus Center hosted an exclusive series of welcome events for the staff of the 110th Congress.
Seeds of Hope: Agricultural Technologies and Poverty Alleviation in Rural South Africa
August 4, 2006
Karol Boudreaux spoke recently at the Kenya Development Network Consortium's fourth Business Workshop, where she discussed the use of no-till farming technologies that are improving the lives of smallhold farmers in South Africa.
Fair Trade, Coffee and the Rwanda Specialty
June 23, 2006
Karol Boudreaux spoke at the Institute for Humane Studies' summer seminar on globalization, where she shared the results of her field research on Rwanda's coffee industry.
Enterprise Africa! Scholars Present at 2006 Uddevalla Symposium
June 15, 2006
Enterprise Africa! scholars spoke at the 9th Uddevalla Symposium 2006, "Entrepreneurship and Development - Local Processes and Global Patterns" at the George Mason University School of Public Policy in Fairfax, VA, USA.
Hands Up: What Works in Development
May 16, 2006
This three-day course developed a framework for understanding the institutions and needs of developing nations, as well as the ability to identify policies that encourage prosperity in the developing world.
Association of Private Enterprise Education 31st Annual Conference
April 2, 2006
Karol Boudreaux, Senior Fellow at the Mercatus Center, spoke about Enterprise Africa! at this year's Chief of Staff Retreat. She informed policy makers in attendance about the progress of the project as well as the central role of entrepreneurship in reducing the effects of poverty.
Mercatus Center Chief of Staff Retreat 2006: Enterprise Africa!
February 24, 2006
Karol Boudreaux, Senior Fellow at the Mercatus Center, spoke about Enterprise Africa! at this year's Chief of Staff Retreat. She informed policy makers in attendance about the progress of the project as well as the central role of entrepreneurship in reducing the effects of poverty.
The Constitution of Development
March 19, 2004
The Social Change Project offers manuscript review conferences to scholars to discuss their work with colleagues across many dosciplines. This conference was held for Dr. Sujai Shivakumar at the National Research Council, the National Academies.
