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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 ...

Five Leading Women Entrepreneurs in South Asia

This post is Part 2 in a series. Read Part 1 here. In the emerging democracies of South Asia, the majority of women are blocked from full economic and civil participation by a range of both formal and informal obstacles, including laws and regulations, and cultural and societal norms. While there i...

Economic Inclusion: Leveraging Markets and Entrepreneurship to Extend Opportunity

Burgeoning youth populations across the developing world emphasize the importance of achieving sustainable economic growth and providing widespread employment opportunities. Economic inclusion refers to equality of opportunity for all members of society to participate in the economic life of their c...

Property Markets, the Rule of Law, and Real Estate Investment

I recently participated in George Washington University's 2015 Global Real Estate Conference in New York. Having been invited to share CIPE's work developing the International Property Markets Scorecard at the International Real Estate Federation's (FIABCI-USA) annual meeting, which dove-tailed w...

What’s Stopping Pakistan from Reaping its Demographic Dividend?

“In the absence of adequate job creation by the public or private sectors, it is more important to enhance financial inclusion, which can help create greater opportunities for self-employment instead of salaried employment.” Tameer Microfinance Bank CEO Nadeem Hussain Pakistan is one of...

Exploring the Connections Between Women’s Economic Empowerment and Democracy

This post is Part 1 in a series. Read Part 2 here. CIPE’s focus both on how economic growth strengthens democracy, and on how sound democratic institutions are needed to make an economy function smoothly, directly bears on women’s political and economic empowerment in South Asia. In Ma...

Working Together for the Future of Serbia’s Youth

By Milos Djuricanin, Program Manager at Serbian Association of Managers. Duracanin was a 2014 ChamberLINKS participant. "It is clear that youth unemployment is one of the biggest problems of our society. If we want to successfully solve the problem of unemployment, we have to listen more to the...