As smoke free laws on public places are being implemented around the country, the economic effects of such policies on the hospitality industry is questioned. The economic impact of Clean Indoor Air Policies (CIAP) on bar and restaurant revenues has been proven to be negligible; smoking bans improve the working conditions of the employees and do not appear to significantly affect revenues (Bart...

The Government of Burkina Faso has recently been conducting important macroeconomic changes, aiming at encouraging the economic growth of the country. In order to maintain this growth, the Government has put in place a transportation program to improve the efficiency and safety of the road network. This paper documents the study carried out in 2000 on the safety improvement of rural roads in Bu...

This paper argues for the necessity and potential of introducing Schumpeter’s understanding of economic development as structural change into Amartya Sen’s peopleoriented development as freedom approach. Sen and other authors on social choice, human development and inequality have effectively promoted – through the United Nations Development Programme that the expansion of human agency, well-be...

Despite limited study in recent years, entrepreneurship plays a crucial role in economic growth, both in society at large and within specific ommunities. 2 In a capitalist market economy, firms initiate and coordinate a wide range of ongoing economic activity, and have increasingly been the site of innovation. The formation and nurturing of firms, of organizations which can create and sustain e...