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Why Cape Town May End Up Safer Than Dubai
A masked woman walks past a luxury shop displaying bikinis on the man-made Palm Jumeirah archipelago in Dubai, February 24, 2021. (Karim Sahib/AFP via Getty Images)
South Africa or Brazil may be better bets for long-run security than tax havens dependent on others for protection.
By Tyler Cowen
03.08.26 — International
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If you are unhappy with your home country, maybe because of taxes or because you don’t like its leadership, its weather, or its crime rates, you have options. You might, for instance, move to a tax haven, following the example of the many people from around the world who have escaped to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). That has been the preferre…

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Tyler Cowen
Tyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and also Faculty Director of the Mercatus Center. He received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1987. His book The Great Stagnation: How America Ate the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better was a New York Times best-seller. He was named in an Economist poll as one of the most influential economists of the last decade and Bloomberg Businessweek dubbed him "America's Hottest Economist." Foreign Policy magazine named him as one of its "Top 100 Global Thinkers" of 2011. He co-writes a blog at www.MarginalRevolution.com, hosts a podcast Conversations with Tyler, and is co-founder of an online economics education project, MRU.org. He is also director of the philanthropic project Emergent Ventures.
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