Karol Boudreaux
Senior Research Fellowkboudrea@gmu.edu
Biography
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, and a member of the Working Group on Property Rights of the U.N.'s Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor.
Ms. Boudreaux's main areas of interest include property rights and development, human rights, and international law. The current focus of her research is contemporary Africa and the ways in which particular institutional arrangements have either helped or hindered human flourishing and economic development on the continent.
Before joining the Mercatus Center, Ms. Boudreaux was assistant dean at the George Mason University School of Law. Additionally, she taught for four years at Clemson University in the legal studies department after which she served as director of programs at the Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington-on-Hudson, NY.
Ms. Boudreaux earned her BA in English literature from Rutgers University (Douglass College) and her JD from the University of Virginia's School of Law.
Articles, Commentary, and Publications
- A Matter of Life and Death
- Urbanisation and Informality in Africa's Housing Markets
- A New Call of the Wild: Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Namibia
- Book Review of Paul Collier's "The Bottom Billion"
- Empowering the Poor through Property Rights
- International Property Rights Index 2008
- Mercatus On Policy - Planting Seeds of Hope
- Mercatus On Policy - Conserving Communities
- The Micromagic of Microcredit
- Property Rights and Incentives in Africa
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Books
Events
- Alternate Strategies for a Green Revolution in Africa
- Legal Empowerment, Poverty Alleviation, and Process
- Enterprise Africa! in London
- African Development: Promise and Peril
- Urbanization and Informality in Africa's Housing Markets
- Legal Empowerment, Poverty Alleviation, and Process
- Conflict and Africa
- Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Namibia
- Fighting Poverty through Entrepreneurship in Africa
- Access Academia: Out of the Ivory Tower and onto the Hill
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