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• Venezuela: Crisis Heightened

  

  Youth taking part in anti-government protests. Photo: ReutersCIPE’s partner CEDICE Libertad joins many other organizations in Venezuela and throughout the... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Private Sector’s Vested Interest in Citizen Security

  

  Armed security at a Walmart store in Costa Rica, (Photo: La Nacion)Security is a fact of life that many of us in the developed world take for granted. Read more

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

• Advancing Private Sector Participation in Iraq

  

  CIPE partner the Iraqi Businessmen Union leads a public-private dialogue session in Baghdad, Iraq.The Iraqi private sector continues to pursue steps towards... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Business Community Unites on Pakistan Budget Proposal

  

  “In a rare show of strength, top representatives of all the country’s chambers of commerce and industry gathered in Karachi and asked the government to revamp... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Current Trends in the Relationship Between Boards and Compliance Officers

  

  By Hyeji KimAny corporate compliance program needs a strong relationship between the board of directors and the compliance and ethics officer in order to be... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How Brazil’s Clean Companies Act Will Affect Emerging Markets

  

  As my colleague Anna Nadgrodkiewicz recently discussed on this blog, corruption is a preeminent threat to developing countries. In Brazil, corruption has been... Read more

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

• To Harness Africa’s Demographic Dividend – Invest in People!

  

  Naledi Modisaatsone is a CIPE-Atlas Corps Think Tank LINKS Fellow at the Urban Institute.The demographic dividend is the accelerated economic growth that may... Read more

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

• The Case for Economic Equality and International Development

  

  At the recent World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland, global inequality was identified as a “top global risk.”Economic inequality has been a growing... Read more

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

• Olympic Games: a Boom Or a Bust for Business Development?

  

  By Jin Xiaoye, CIPE Global InternWith the Winter Olympics now underway in Sochi, Russia, it is not only the events themselves that are attracting attention:... Read more

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

• A Second Path for Youth Employment in Azerbaijan

  

  Forty percent of Azerbaijan’s population is under the age of 25, but less than a third of Azerbaijani youth are employed. This is partly due to economic policie... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Women’s Business Associations Come Together in South Asia

  

  Last week in Colombo, Sri Lanka, CIPE held the fourth in its series of training and networking sessions for a group of women business leaders from across South... Read more

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

• Holding Government Accountable in Pakistan

  

  For the first time since its independence in 1947, Pakistan saw its first ever peaceful transition from one democratically elected government to another in 2013. Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Corruption as a Tax on Private Sector Growth

  

  Corruption is one of the biggest challenges facing the developing world: it has a corrosive effect on democratic governance, undermines public trust, and... Read more

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

• CIPE Partners Are Top Global “Go To” Think Tanks

  

  Think tanks play a vital role in any democratic society, providing policy analysis, carrying out advocacy campaigns, and keeping politics focused on key policy... Read more

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

• The Need for Constitutional Protection of Private Enterprise

  

  Constitutions can play an important role in protecting economic liberties, in addition to political liberties. As the state’s foundational legal document, the... Read more

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

• Celebrating Young Civil Society Leaders from Around the Globe

  

  On January 24 at the U.S. Department of State, CIPE, Atlas Corps, and the Office of the U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan co-hosted a welcome event... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Legal and Regulatory Barriers to Women’s Participation in the Labor Force

  

  Women entrepreneurs at a networking even in New Delhi. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)By Laura Boyette and Teodora Mihaylova Including women in the economy is not... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Working on Its Own Development: Visiting a KnowHow Mentee in Tunisia

  

  Louis Delcart is the Director of Internationalisation and Innovation at VOKA – Flanders’ Chamber of Commerce Halle-Vilvoorde. He is serving as a mentor to the... Read more

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

• Can Protests Change Society?

  

  On Monday, Americans honored the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose nonviolent activism helped achieve the promise of civil rights for... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Profiles in Peace: The Role of Women in Global Peace and Security

  

  Women are essential to peaceful, democratic development of their societies. As the UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka noted in a recent speech o... Read more

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