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World Chambers Congress focuses on SMEs and Job Creation

Under the banner of “Identity, Community, Vision,” over 1,300 delegates from around the world gathered in Turin, Italy on June 10 to attend the World Chambers Congress. The main focus of the three day event was how to strengthen small and medium enterprises (SMEs) worldwide to create jo...

Enhancing Youth’s Political Participation in Pakistan

By Fayyaz Bhidal, Research Manager at Sustainable Development Policy Institute Internationally, the average age of eligibility for election to national parliament starts at 25 years old. According to a UNDP 2012 Global Parliamentary Report, approximately 1.65 percent of parliamentarians globally ar...

A Trinity of Trade: Africa soon to Launch TFTA

By Otito Greg-Obi Recently, African heads of state gathered together in Egypt to sign the Tripartite Free Trade Area agreement (TFTA) which will join the forces of the East African Community (EAC), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), and the Southern African Development Co...

Feature Service Highlight: Ronald Coase’s Views on the Conduct of Economics

"Ronald Coase would often say that if Darwin were to come back to earth today, he would be amazed at how much biology has progressed since The Origin of Species. Whereas if Adam Smith came back today and looked at economics, he would be amazed at how little has changed since he wrote The Wealth of...

CIPE Launches First Annual Photo Competition

“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.” – Robert Frank Show us your best story-telling photo Do you like to tell stories through photography? Then show us your best work! The first annual Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) Ph...

Riinvest Institute Celebrates 20 year Anniversary

CIPE's long term partner Riinvest Institute for Development Research is celebrating their 20th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, Riinvest held a conference on May 15 and 16 titled, "Activating the Sources of Economic Growth in Kosovo". The conference brought together an impressive audie...

Are Remittances Really Remiss?

By Otito Greg-Obi It is a popular opinion in the international development community that remittances – money transferred by a foreign worker back to someone in his or her home country – can have a negative effect on economic growth because recipients tend to spend cash flows on day-to-day su...

The New Middle East: An Uncertain Future

By Bahaa Eddin Al Dahoudi, CIPE-Atlas Corps Think Tank LINKS Fellow What future awaits the Middle East? This question remains pivotal following the outbreak of the Arab revolutions four years ago. It keeps popping up as regional developments arise, especially with the decline of democracy and pr...

CIPE Pakistan Releases 2014 Activities Report

The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) has been working in Pakistan for the past eight years encouraging private sector-driven economic reform and increasing the role of the private sector in the country’s democratic process. CIPE’s Pakistan office just released its 2014...

A Way Forward for a Viable Syria

"We hear a lot about Syria— we hear the narrative of the Syrian government, we hear the narrative of ISIS, we hear the narrative of some of the opposition groups, but we don't usually hear from the private sector, about what's going on." With this introduction, CIPE Regional Director for the ...