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Property Rights, Democracy, and Development

Since the publication of Hernando de Soto’s landmark book The Mystery of Capital in 2000, the link between property rights and economic development, especially for the world’s poor, has become increasingly well understood. More recently, the events of the Arab Spring have thrown the rela...

Developing a Moral Compass for Pakistan’s Informal Sector

The long-running question in Pakistan remains how to formalize the informal sector? Pakistan’s informal sector, comprised of thousands of small-scale entrepreneurs ranging from street vendors to restaurants to electricians, plumbers, and even doctors and lawyers, has made great contributions ...

Fourth Annual CIPE International Youth Essay Contest Winners Announced

CIPE is pleased to announce the winners of the fourth annual International Youth Essay contest today. This year we received more than 400 entries from 65 countries, including Afghanistan, Cambodia, Cameroon, Egypt, Indonesia, Moldova, and Uganda. The three categories this year were Corruption, Democ...

Pakistan Inches Towards Reforming Public Sector Enterprises

“The government was determined to enhance the efficiency of public sector enterprises (PSEs) by restructuring their boards and appointing professional heads of these organizations, mostly from the private sector, in order to make the entities profitable institutions.” – Dr. Abdul Hafe...

Increasing Organizational Capacity through Mentorship: A Letter from Georgia

Kakha Kokhreidze is the 1st Vice President and Executive of the Georgian Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Association, a CIPE KnowHow Exchange mentee. In Georgia, the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector is very weak. For years, SMEs had no unified voice to engage in dialogue with ...

Promoting Youth Entrepreneurship in Pakistan

“The Young Entrepreneurs’ Forum is committed to addressing the prevalence of barriers that prevent aspiring entrepreneurship from taking the first step towards an entrepreneurial career” – Shaban Khalid, Chairman, YEF. Promoting entrepreneurship is an important priority for Paki...

A Revolution in Higher Education and Entrepreneurship

The OECD has been working extensively on education; its top of the line agenda is to achieve quality education system in OECD countries. The center of a quality education system is innovation and knowledge management, which can help to foster economic growth, provided entrepreneurship and researc...

Lviv: Between East and West

One of the nominees for best foreign-language film at this year's Academy Awards was the movie "In Darkness" set in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv during World War II. The film is a fictionalized account of how a group of Jews survived in the sewers of Lviv during the Nazi's World War II occup...

Building Institutions for Economic Growth

It is widely recognized that encouraging long-term economic growth requires competition, innovation, and the spread of new technologies. But these, in turn, require sound underlying institutions, the rule of law, and a state committed to the efficient provision of public goods. In the latest Econom...

Egypt’s Food Subsidies and the IMF

This week, the IMF is back in Egypt to meet with government leaders to discuss a proposed $3.2 billion loan to the country’s transitional government. So far, the package has yet to garner support from either the Muslim Brotherhood or leading Salafist party Al-Nour, both of whom are waiting to...