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• Study Shows Lack of Ideas is Not What’s Holding Women Entrepreneurs Back

  

  Participants at a recent training workshop for South Asian women’s business associations in Kathmandu.African women are almost twice as likely to have a new... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• South Asian Women’s Chambers and Associations Learn Effective Advocacy Techniques

  

  By Hammad Siddiqui and Marc SchleiferFor the past two years, CIPE has been working to build the capacity of women’s chambers and businesses associations from... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Advancing Economic Development Through Public-Private Dialogue: Moldova Case...

  

  Moldova’s Soviet-legacy economy is the poorest in Europe. (Photo: Moldova Steel Works, Wikimapia.org)When the public and private sectors work together to... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Why Free Enterprise Matters for Democracy in Venezuela

  By Gustavo Guerrero and Laura BoyetteThe economic and political climate in Venezuela today has grown to crisis levels as the government consolidates power and... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Enterprise Cities: The Way of the Future?

  

  “Enterprise Cities” aim to emulate the success of places like Dubai.With rates of urbanization increasing, the idea of “Enterprise Cities” is gaining ground as... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Who Would Win the World Cup If It Was Decided By Corruption Perceptions?

  

  Sixteen teams made it through the group stage in the 2014 World Cup to the knockout round and are fighting towards international bragging rights for the next... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Pakistan’s Business Community Learns to Speak With One Voice

  

  By Majid ShabbirThe advocacy process in Pakistan is strengthening as the leaders of the country’s Chambers of Commerce and Industry assembled for a series of... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Improving the Business Environment in Afghanistan, One Province at a Time

  

  More than 400 business leaders, including 30 women, met in in Karzai Hall in Jalalabad, Afghanistan on June 4 to discuss ways of improving the business... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• CIPE Pakistan Releases 2013 Activities Report

  

  CIPE Pakistan has completed its 7th successful year. The 2013 Pakistan Activities Report details the progress of yet another instrumental year for policy... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Platform for Fixing-Space

  

  By Aksa Bilal, honorable mention in the CIPE 2013 Blog Competition. Read the rest of the winning entries here.I remember it was just 6 years ago, when boys and... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Taking Stock of Syria’s Shattered Economy

  

  This slideshow requires JavaScript.The common thread that unites all of CIPE’s partners around the world is their dedication to the principles of democracy... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Democracy is Still the Only Viable Alternative

  

  Winston Churchill’s famous quote about democracy – it’s “the worst form of government, except for all those others forms that have been tried” – is a cliché. Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Time to Re-Think Development in Africa?

  

  Naledi Modisaatsone is a CIPE-Atlas Corps Think Tank LINKS Fellow at the Urban Institute.Africa is in the news. The U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit is being held... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Four Key Ingredients for Accountable Decentralized Government in Lebanon

  

  Under the new law, each village would have representation proportional to its size.Sami Atallah is the Executive Director of the Lebanese Center for Policy... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Developing a National Business Agenda for Afghanistan

  

  Since 2005, CIPE has been working with the business community in Afghanistan to build their capacity to work with the government to improve the business... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Enriching the Future: Creating Opportunities for Youth in the Middle East

  

  Through high-level discussions of democracy, development, and free trade, the 2014 Doha Forum held from May 12 to 14 sought to find solutions to key economic... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Open Government, Open Data, and the Meaning of Transparency

  

  “Open” has become one of the biggest buzzwords in governance. But what does openness really mean? And does it mean the same thing to governments, civil society... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Learning to Start a Business in Papua New Guinea

  

  “The recent workshop by CIPE on the 19th of May 2014 in Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea is important as firstly puts our vision into action but most importantl... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Five Ways to Ensure the Public Has a Say in Libya’s New Constitution

  

  Mahmoud Bader is CIPE-Atlas Corps Think Tank LINKS Fellow at the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED).Ever since Libya’s General National Congress’ (GNC)... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 6th All-Pakistan Secretary Generals Conference

  

  “Learning, networking, beginning of new friendships, exposure to cases of mutual interests – that is what this forum is to me” - Secretary General, Pakistan... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY