• Commodity Based Sovereign Wealth Funds: An Alternative Path to Economic Development 

    Olawoye, Omosalewa Oluyinka (University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
    Natural resource producing countries struggle with issues about how to make use of their natural resources properly, allocate the funds from these resources and how to ensure continuity of th ...
  • Local Food and Economic Development 

    Werner, Brian Andrew (University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
    This dissertation examines the potential of local food as an economic development strategy in the United States. Using an interdisciplinary approach it traces the development of the local food movement within the broader ...