Key Success Factors in Environmental Entrepreneurship: The Case of Wilderness Safaris
This chapter analyzes the entrepreneurial conception and evolution of the Wilderness Safaris (WS) ecotourism enterprise operating in eight African countries.
Research
How Tight Are U.S. Labor Markets?
Since the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, labor market indicators that traditionally move together have been sending different signals about the degree of slack in the U.S. labor market.
Property Rights and Urban Form
How do the different elements in the standard bundle of property rights, including those of possession and transfer, influence the shape of cities?
A Growth Diagnostic of Namibia
In the thirty years that have passed since independence, Namibia has been characterized by its over-reliance on its mineral resource wealth, procyclicality of macroeconomic policy, and large income di
Hidden Defaults
China’s lending boom to developing countries is morphing into defaults and debt distress.
Employment Structure and the Rise of the Modern Tax System
This paper builds a new microdatabase that covers 100 countries at all income levels and long-run time series in the United States (1870–2010) and Mexico (1960–2010) to document how the modern tax sys
Macroeconomic risks after a decade of microeconomic turbulence
This study analyses the performance of macroeconomic policy in South Africa in 2007–2020 and outlines challenges for policy in the coming decade.
Rethinking How We Score Capital Gains Tax Reform
We argue the revenue potential from increasing tax rates on capital gains may be substantially greater than previously understood.
Infrastructure economics and policy: international perspectives
Sustainably built and funded infrastructure is indispensable to resilient, equitable, and livable communities and regions worldwide.
Tipping point dynamics in global land use
Agricultural land use has recently peaked, both globally and across country income groups, after centuries of expansion and intensification.
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