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Legal Empowerment, Poverty Alleviation, and Process Start: April 29, 2008 12:00 PM 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.

NPC Newsmaker: The Rwandan Coffee Industry Start: March 24, 2008 10:00 AM Enterprise Africa! Lead Researcher Karol Boudreaux discusses the emergence of Rwanda's coffee sector with a panel of experts at the National Press Club.

USAID's Commercial, Legal, and Institutional Reform Analysis Start: February 26, 2008 12:30 PM The Social Change Project at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University presents a Brown Bag Lecture USAID’s Commercial Legal and Institutional Reform (CLIR) Analysis:  A Development Approach to Law by USAID Senior Law and Development Advisor Wade Channell, USAID Senior Commercial Law Reform Advisors Nick Klissas and  Charles Schwartz.

Enterprise Africa! in London Start: February 4, 2008 08:00 AM 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.

The Zimbabwean Crisis Start: January 28, 2008 04:00 PM Mr. Coltart’s Talk will focus around Zimbabwe’s decline in the last decade, especially with regards to weakening institutions such as property rights and the rule of law. Drawing on his lifetime of experience in the region, Mr. Coltart will share his account of the problems that have been facing Zimbabwe in recent years, giving his recommendations for what can be done to move the nation forward towards a more prosperous future.

African Development: Promise and Peril Start: January 18, 2008 09:00 AM 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 Start: 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 Start: 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.

Conflict and Africa Start: July 12, 2007 09:00 AM Karol Broudreaux spoke about conflict resolution to a group of visiting African officials and NGO workers.

Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Namibia Start: June 8, 2007 12:00 PM This June, Karol Bourdeaux discussed her research on Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Namibia with staff at the Millennium Challenge Corporation.

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