Karol Boudreaux on Wildlife, Property, and Poverty in Africa

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🗓️ 22 September 2008

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Karol Boudreaux, Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about wildlife management in Africa. Their conversation focuses on community-based wildlife management in Namibia, a policy to give communities the incentives to protect wildlife and avoid the tragedy of the commons.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:12.5	I'm your host Russ Roberts of George Mason University and Stanford University's Hoover
0:17.3	Institution.
0:18.7	Our website is econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, find other episodes, comment on this podcast,
0:25.8	and find links to other information related to today's conversation.
0:29.9	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org, we'd love to hear from you.
0:38.1	My guest today is Carol Boudreau, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center here at
0:42.4	George Mason University, and the lead researcher for Enterprise Africa, a Mercatus Center
0:47.7	Research Project that studies poverty in Africa.
0:50.5	Carol, welcome back to econtalk.
0:52.1	Thank you, Russ.
0:53.1	Thanks for having me.
0:54.1	Our topic today is wildlife management and how it interacts with poverty and property
0:58.4	rights.
0:59.4	How interested in this topic?
1:01.4	This was a topic that was introduced to me by our partners in South Africa, the Free Market
1:06.4	Foundation.
1:07.9	They had a contact with a gentleman who had been very instrumental in funding community-based
1:13.6	natural resource management efforts in the 1980s, and they suggested that we be in touch
1:19.0	with him and take a look at what was going on in Namibia because it seemed to him as a result
1:24.1	of his experiences that Namibia actually presented a very positive story of communities taking
1:30.2	charge of their wildlife resources and doing good things as a result of that.
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