Urban governance
- Perking up the economy: coffee in Rwanda
- K. Boudreaux;D. Sacks / Mercatus Center, George Mason University, 2007
- This policy brief focuses on the recent developments in the Rwandan coffee industry. It says while the highly regulated conditions of the past stifled the industry, recent market policies have given a...
- Paths to property: approaches to institutional change in international development
- K. Boudreaux;P. Dragos Aligica / Mercatus Center, George Mason University, 2008
- This monograph addresses the question of how best to create or reform property rights systems in developing countries.Although solutions may usefully be informed by political and econom...
- Empowering the poor through property rights
- P. Pelegrino / Mercatus Center, George Mason University, 2008
- This paper describes, contextualises and analyses the experience of the Bento Rubião Foundation in relation to its right to land project. As part of this project, the Foundation ...
- Urbanisation and informality in Africa's housing markets
- K. Boudreaux / Mercatus Center, George Mason University, 2008
- As Africa’s slums expand, international organisations, NGOs, and governments themselves call for strong public-sector action to deal with the problems in these settlements and to limit their exp...
- With friends like these, who needs enemies? aiding the world's worst dictators
- C. J. Coyne;M. E. Ryan / Mercatus Center, George Mason University, 2008
- This paper reviews the foreign aid provided to the world’s worst living dictators. It considers arguments for the continued provision of aid as well as reasons why aid fails to improve the situa...
- Community-based natural resource management and poverty alleviation in Namibia: a case study
- K. Boudreaux / Mercatus Center, George Mason University, 2007
- Can indigenous people protect their environment and, at the same time, develop strong businesses that help diversify their livelihoods and alleviate poverty? In Namibia, this paper argues, the answ...
- State power, entrepreneurship, and coffee: the Rwandan experience
- K. Bordreaux / Mercatus Center, George Mason University, 2007
- Rwanda’s specialty coffee industry is helping to improve the lives of coffee producers and of other Rwandans. The role of the coffee industry in Rwanda is examined in this research with respe...
- Does fair trade coffee help the poor? Evidence from Costa Rica and Guatemala
- C.E.H. Berndt / Mercatus Center, George Mason University, 2007
- This document takes a very critical look at Fair Trade. It specifically focuses on whether assessing whether Fair Trade actually delivers on its promise or whether it harms the long-term interests ...
- Taxing alternatives: poverty alleviation and the South African Taxi/Minibus industry
- K. Boudreaux / Mercatus Center, George Mason University, 2006
- This study looks at how local entrepreneurship can be better supported in the South African taxi and minibus industry. It looks at the likely impacts of the Government's Taxi Recapitalization Programm...
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