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From Agrarian Reform to Command Economy

As Alan Garcia is getting ready to celebrate his victory in the runoff presidential elections in Peru, Jefferson Morley at the Washington Post ponders whether the influence of the Left, particularly Hugo Chavez, is dwindling in Latin America. With Peru seemingly rejecting any serious reversals from ...

New Feature on CIPE Blog

There is a new feature on CIPE blog - we are now polling our users on general international development issues. The poll is available in the right-side column. Stop by and "have your say." and Technorati Profile

Democracy Promotion — Local Risk and International Support

Yesterday the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on The Role of NGOs in the Development of Democracy. It was broadcast live, of course, and the archived video as well as the list of witnesses and copies of opening statements can be found on line. All democracies are works in p...

What Type of Investment Do You Want?

Russian stock market grew by over 80% in 2005. 80%?!?! Risk or no risk, that's something any investor would love to hear. And Russia is not the only country on the list of economies with booming stock markets. Recently, however, stock markets in many emerging economies have been losing stea...

Empowering Women Through Micro Finance

Women are vital contributors to the economic survival of poor households and family reliance on women’s earnings increases with the extent of poverty. A survey showed that the earnings of women in poor households of Karachi which is the largest city of Pakistan with a population of about 14 mi...

Private Solutions to Public Problems: Street Vendors?

NPR is running a story today on the informal sector in Mexico. There are some interesting insights into the daily life of street vendors. Consider, for example, Porfirio Salinas, who modified his bicycle so that he is able to provide city residents a knife-sharpening service. He tells about ...

Property protest hits the blogosphere — in China

High prices in urban centers are a pain felt by many would-be homeowners, whether in New York, Moscow, London, Hong Kong, and now apparently, Shenzhen. On Monday the Wall Street Journal (paid subscription required) reported about a Chinese blogger calling for a boycott of Chinese property sales ...

Transparency – Key to Economic Reforms

Truly said, transparency within the governments and its stakeholders is the singly key economic reform required by a country needed to embark upon the path of economic growth. Despite continued efforts, the Government of Pakistan is still unable to implement transparency and trust within their syste...

Using Trade Barriers as An Incentive

Belarus has fallen off the radards somewhat, following Lukashenka's victory in this spring's Presidential elections and subsequent European Union's ban on travels of senior Belarusian officials and freeze on their assets within its borders. But, it seems, the EU is not yet finished, annoucing th...

Corruption Strikes Motorola in Russia

In a strange twist of events, $17 million worth of Motorola cellular phones imported into Russia were confiscated on March 29th by the customs agency merely 5 days after Motorola received approval from the very same agency. As Steven Lee Meyers writes in his article in Wednesday's edition of the New...

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