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• Improving Afghanistan’s Economy from the Bottom Up

  

  Lead farmer Abdul Rahman with grapes. Afghanistan. 2008. Photo: © Nicholas Bertrand / TAIMANI FILMS / WORLD BANK via FlickrCIPE and the local Afghan business... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2017 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Democracy That Delivers Podcast #78: Omowumi Gbadamosi on Economic and Democrati...

  

  From left: podcast guest Omowumi Gbadamosi with guest host Lars Benson, and host Ken Jaques.This week on CIPE’s Democracy that Delivers podcast, CIPE’s Country... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2017 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Democracy That Delivers #77 Thida Khus on Democratization in Cambodia

  

  From left: podcast guest Thida Khus, with hosts Sarah Yun and Ken JaquesThida Khus is the founder and executive director of Silaka, a non-profit organization... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2017 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Removing Barriers to Investment in Ukraine

  

  panelists from Identifying and Removing Barriers to Investment in UkraineBy Eric Hontz and Kathryn WalsonThree years after Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity, a... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2017 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Democracy That Delivers #76: Christina Bain on the Role Business and...

  

  Christina Bain, director of the Initiative on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at Babson College in Massachusetts, discusses the role of business and... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2017 CURRENT

• Democracy That Delivers #75: Mark Oxley and Henry LaGue On Economic Progress in...

  

  2011 CIPE Workshop in ZimbabweHenry LaGue sits down in the field with Mark Oxley, a CIPE consultant in Zimbabwe.Oxley explains how he became involved with the... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2017 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Women Entrepreneurs in South Asia Are Critical to the Region’s Economic Growth

  

  Women work at a chili flake production facility owned by a Nepalese woman who used to carry stones to help send her brothers to school. Her business exports... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2017 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Democracy That Delivers #74: Mauro DaCunha on the Democratization of Capital in...

  

  From left: podcast guest Mauro DaCunha, guest host John Zemko, and host Ken JaquesMauro DaCunha, the chief executive officer of Brazil’s AMEC (Capital Market... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2017 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How Good Governance Got a Bad Name – and Why Governance Still Matters

  

  Local leaders in the city of Talisay in the Philippines used CIPE partner the Institute of Solidarity in Asia’s performance governance system (PGS) to harness... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2017 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Democracy That Delivers Podcast #73: Majdi Hassen on Economic Reform...

  

  Podcast guest Majdi Hassen and guest host Anna KompanekOn this week’s Democracy the Delivers podcast, Institut arabe des chefs d’entreprises (IACE) Executive... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2017 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Democracy That Delivers #72: Randa Al-Zoghbi on the Launch of Finance App...

  

  Podcast guest Randa Al-ZoghbiIn this episode of the Democracy that Delivers podcast, podcast guest Randa Al-Zoghbi, CIPE’s Program Director in Egypt, discussed... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2017 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• President Reagan’s Call for a Campaign for Democracy Still Applies Today

  

  By Andrew Wilson, Managing Director, Center for International Private EnterprisePhoto Credit: WikipediaWhen President Reagan delivered his Westminster address t... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2017 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Democracy That Delivers Podcast #71: Joshua Muwanguzi and Derrick Magoola Discus...

  

  Students from Ndejje University in Uganda participating in an Entrepreneurship Club training in 2015On a recent trip to Uganda, Henry LaGue, CIPE Program Office... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2017 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Democracy That Delivers #70: Role of Business in Fragile States

  

  From left: moderator Scott Stearns with panelists Arshad Sayed, Danielle Walker, Lars Benson, and Ben MusukuFragile States continue to garner international... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2017 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Threats to Democracy in Slovakia

  

  By Peter Goliaš, Jozef Hajko, and Michal PiškoThe Institute for Economic and Social Reform (INEKO), with support from CIPE and the National Endowment... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2017 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Reaffirming the Euro-Atlantic Commitment to Democracy and Private Enterprise

  

  Protesters at the March for Europe protest on July the 2nd, 2016 in London.The outpouring of anti-globalist sentiments from both right and left in many western... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2017 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Democracy That Delivers #69: Oraib Al Rantawi on Opportunities for Public-privat...

  

  Guest host Anna Kompanek with podcast guest Oraib Al RantawiOn this week’s Democracy That Delivers podcast, director of the Al Quds Center for Political... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2017 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ethics, Compliance, and Oversight in International Development: Lessons from...

  

  Photo Credit: DFID (via Flickr)Although the international development community aspires to noble ends, the firms and organizations therein are not free from... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2017 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Democracy That Delivers Podcast #68: Stone Conroy on How Business Associations...

  

  Left: Guest Stone Conroy, with hosts Jenny Anderson and Julie JohnsonOn this week’s Democracy that Delivers podcast, Senior Manager for Strategic Partnerships a... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2017 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Using Technology to Strengthen Policy Advocacy Across South Asia

  

  CIPE training session in Kathmandu, NepalThroughout South Asia, women in business have faced several barriers to achieving full civic and economic participation. Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2017 BUSINESS, CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY