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How Bitcoin Could Cut the Cost of Remittances and Aid

By Mary Beliveau Those wishing to send aid, remittances, and investment overseas face exchange rate manipulation and inflated fees when using traditional money transfer services. One emerging alternative to using these services is to transfer Bitcoin internationally. Bitcoin is alluring because f...

Democracy that Delivers through Better Governance

Major global trends are changing the way we approach international assistance and policy reform. Private sector-led growth has produced enormous opportunities, even as market freedom and access to opportunity remain uneven. Political upheaval has raised hopes for democratic freedoms, yet freedom t...

Women Mentoring Women in Nicaragua

"REN-CIPE is [about] teamwork, working together with a person who is blazing a trail for me to follow," said Noeilin Escobar, mentee and owner of Velas Amazonia, "so that my journey is clearer and easier." Dismal statistics state that 90 percent of start-ups will fail. But mentorship can help tu...

Vote for the Winners of the 2015 Global Photo Competition

In a world saturated with media, the power of a single, compelling image can cut through the clutter. CIPE’s 2015 Global Photo Competition seeks to highlight creative and inspiring visual answers to this crucial question: How can individuals be empowered to improve their lives and contribute to t...

International Youth Day 2015: From the CIPE Fellows

CIPE firmly believes in this year's International Youth Day theme: youth civic engagement. Without young people's political, economic, and social participation, no community is truly democratic. And many youth around the world have great ideas that can transform societies for better, but simply la...

Defining Syria’s Future

Creating a Brighter Future for Syrian Youth from CIPE on Vimeo. This International Youth Day, Syrian youth face a bleak situation. During more than four years of conflict in their country, more than 12,000 children have been killed. Approximately 2 million are living as refugees, and 7.5 million ...

Guatemalan Youth Fed Up with Spectating Become Protagonists in their Country’s Future

By Dara Sanford In the past few months, Guatemala has been hit by a wave of protests aimed at the government, focusing primarily on corruption endemic in the country. Thousands of Guatemalans, a majority of whom are Millennials, have taken to the streets to show they are fed up with corruption an...

Property Rights, the Rule of Law, and Indigenous Rights

What do property rights and rule of law have to do with the rights, health, and well-being of indigenous people? Quite a lot. The worldwide indigenous population is estimated to be between 220 million and 350 million, spread across all inhabitable stretches of the earth. Land and the natural resou...

A Reservoir of Capability and Talent: Women’s Economic Empowerment and Increased Political Participation in Pakistan

This post is Part 3 in a series. Read Part 1 here and part 2 here. Jump to Arbab’s remarks here. Shamama Arbab, Vice President of the Peshawar Women’s Chamber of Commerce (PWCCI) in Pakistan, is both a director of her own business and a tireless advocate for economic inclusion for wo...

Rising Corruption in Karachi

Corruption in Pakistan is not a new issue, but as of late it has had a detrimental effect on the country’s economic fortunes and its ability to attract foreign investment. A 2014 report by Transparency International Pakistan found over Rs. 8.5 trillion ($94 billion) was wasted due to corrup...