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The Voice of Youth in Economic Policymaking

Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of presenting at the 2015 Global Youth Economic Summit in Washington, DC, where over 450 leaders and practitioners from 50 countries came together. The theme of the overall summit was “Scale in Practice,” and it examined how best to design youth ec...

The Real Problem for Intra-African Trade

This post is continuation of a previous article on regional integration in Africa. Reducing tariffs is a great start for increasing trade within Africa, but important non-tariff barriers (NTBs) must also be reduced in order to boost trade both within and outside of the continent. In fact, the Unite...

Can Regional Integration Help Africa Reach Its Economic Potential?

Much of the discussion at last year's landmark U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, DC, focused on transatlantic trade and investment between the U.S. and African countries – for example, the need to renew the African Growth and Opportunity Act, which aims to promote trade with the U.S. by ...

Tunisia’s Nobel Peace Prize: Keeping the Boat Sailing

When I heard about the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Tunisia, my first reaction was happiness – they deserve it. Not just the members of the Quartet who were the recipients, but every Tunisian participating in this grand democracy experiment. I have worked in places that never got this far, desp...

Carrots Before Sticks

This post originally appeared on the SCCE Compliance & Ethics blog. I was truly honored to attend this year's Compliance and Ethics Institute (CEI) in Las Vegas, and to present with my colleague Frank Brown, CIPE's experience with motivating mid-sized businesses in emerging markets to launch ...

Reports Show Weak Progress on Economic Reform in Pakistan

In Pakistan, the process of economic reforms has been painfully slow – a fact underlined by stalled or slipping progress on several international indices. On the World Bank’s 2015 Doing Business, Pakistan fell from 107th out of 185 countries to 128th. The World Economic Forum’s Global...

Helping Diaspora Investors Make a Difference in their Home Countries

"There is nothing more powerful than individuals motivated to invest in meaningful programs in their home countries," said Eric-Vincent Guichard, the Founder and CEO of Homestrings, an online platform facilitating global diaspora investments.  The son of a Guinean father and an American mother, E...

Fighting Corruption Matters for Indonesia’s Oil and Gas Industry

"If a company's goal is to stay in business for a long time, why take the shortcut and pay bribes, which can damage the company in the long term?" asked Sammy Hamzah, president of Indonesian Petroleum Association, at the launch event of CIPE and International Business Links (IBL)'s new Anti-Corru...
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