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Corruption Deprives People from Access to Safe Drinking Water

I just read this summary of a report that the United Nations published. The negative impact that corruption can have on basic human needs is truly alarming. Corruption plays a crucial yet nearly invisible role in depriving nearly a fifth of the world's population of access to safe drinking water, ...

Catallactic Competition

Not that I want to bore you with an economic theory discussion, but I was going through "Human Action" by Ludwig von Misses and thought that his comments on free competition merit your interest. Economists, Misses argues, generally advocate for free competition - one means of achieving it, for e...

Upping the Ante for Anti-Corruption

CIPE's programs around the world have always included a strong component focusing on anti-corruption. Today, CIPE works with partners in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Columbia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Russia to eliminate corrupt practices at all levels of society. ...

Stepping Nimbly in Cambodia’s Market

As I walk through a produce market in Phnom Penh, Cambodia I'm glad that I spent some of my younger years learning kung fu. Not because I ever feel threatened in any way. The case is quite the opposite, actually. If anyone seems overtly curious about me as I snap pictures with my conspicuously large...

Limits to Liberal Democracy

Gorbachev reflects on the cult of personality, current political situation in Russia, media freedom, and other geo-political issues in an interview with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. On the state of democracy in Russia: I think any extreme is flawed. There are some that say the government m...

Employment Security: Employee vs. Employer Perspectives

French youth's protests against labor market reforms have far reaching implications for all countries around the world, not just France, struggling to integrate young people into the labor market. Two quotes from the Christian Science Monitor's story on this capture the essence of the debate wel...

New Democracy Fund

The recently established U.N. Democracy Fund was inaugurated yesterday with pledges of $41 million from 17 countries, U.S. and India providing the most money. In the description of what types of initiatives this fund will provide support for, there are all the right words - from democratic inst...

Food Aid or Food Aids?

Check out this interview (part 1 and part 2) with Michael Maren in "The African Executive," a magazine published by CIPE partner Inter Region Economic Network (IREN). Michael Maren has some strong statements in the interview, but it all comes down to one thing - his major argument seems to be t...

Media Group in Kenya Raided

Heavily armed and masked police commandos smashed printing presses and seized transmission equipment Thursday in raids on Kenya's second-largest media company, while three reporters were charged with creating public alarm in what officials said was a national security case... The raid is linked to t...

Moral Capitalism

I was at a discussion yesterday on the merits of moral capitalism and while listening to the presenter, tried to figure out what really are negative perceptions of capitalism all about. The discussion focused on the moral aspects of doing business, the value systems and religious underpinnings of ...

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