M'Balou Camara

M’Balou Camara is an editor for The African Seed Access Index (TASAI), a non-profit that works with local seed researchers/experts to inform policy decisions around the growing (yet complex) market for seed of improved varieties in sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to joining TASAI Inc., M’Balou worked as a consultant in the Agriculture and Agro-Industry department of the African Development Bank (Côte d’Ivoire), a research associate for the Samuel Dubois Cook Center on Social Equity (United States), and a business coach for a social entrepreneurship incubator called Osez Innover (Guinée-Conakry). M’Balou received an M.A. in public policy (economics concentration) from Duke University and a B.A. in economics, political science, and global studies from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). From 2015 to 2017, she was an international economics research fellow at NYU Stern School of Business in NYC.

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Article | Jun 2, 2022

James M. Buchanan’s defenders argue he was not racist because of his ties with the anti-apartheid economist W.H. Hutt, but this defense fails miserably

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Paper Working Paper | | Jun 2022

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