CIPE Publications Archives - Center for International Private Enterprise

Mitigating Corrosive Capital & Attracting Constructive Capital: A Practitioner’s Guide

Guides & Tools

For years, CIPE has studied the effects of foreign investment on economies and governments around the world, documenting the many ways investments undermine or support market and democratic institutions in recipient countries, as well as identifying actions to strengthen economic resilience. This led CIPE to develop the twin concepts of Corrosive Capital® and Constructive Capital...

Modern Approaches to Establishing Trust in Business: A Study of Taiwanese Companies Operating in Southeast Asia

Guides & Tools

To inform and inspire, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) partnered with the Chinese National Federation of Industries (CNFI), the largest and most influential business association in Taiwan, to identify six Taiwanese businesses driving positive change by developing products and policies that address modern challenges...

Driving Transparency in Cambodia: How Lenders Shape Infrastructure Standards

Guides & Tools

Governments in emerging economies are turning to a variety of sources for infrastructure funding and technology. Among the avenues for countries in Asia and the Pacific: multilateral development banks and donor agreements with neighboring countries such as China, Japan, and South Korea. To show how differently lenders from the three countries operate, CIPE and its...

CIPE Association Frontiers Transitioning to Strategic Agendas

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Has your Chamber or Association struggled to turn the strategic plan into action? The key may lie in reengineering it’s board meetings with a strategic focus. In this video, CIPE’s...

Corruption Risk Assessment: Humanitarian Aid in Ukraine

Guides & Tools

Immense amounts of humanitarian aid continue to flow into war-torn Ukraine and CIPE is working to help gauge and curb associated corruption. Findings by CIPE indicate corruption risk levels may be lower than many anticipate.

Ethiopian MSMEs and the AfCFTA

Guides & Tools

The African Continental Free Trade Agreement ushers in a new era of cross-border commerce for the 54 countries that signed the pact. This policy brief is the first in a...

Identifying Successful Collective Action Approaches Against Kleptocracy

Guides & Tools

This USAID-funded CEPPS/IRI/CIPE report outlines contemporary collective action approaches against kleptocracy. The research rests on key interviews and expert analysis and features 7 country-specific case studies: Armenia, Guatemala, Malaysia, Moldova,...

2024 Africa Association Survey Findings

Surveys

Business membership organizations offer support for local businesses and help foster inclusive growth and economic development. These crucial functions are harder to provide when the organizations are too dependent on a single source of revenue, and that is a problem in Africa, according to survey data collected by CIPE. This report illustrates the pressing need...

The Growing Awareness of the Role of SMEs in Anti-Corruption

Articles

For the first time, the largest global gathering of anti-corruption practitioners and activists purposefully examined the role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in combatting corruption, with business representatives sharing...

How to Use Policy Framing

Guides & Tools

The political or public response to an issue depends heavily on how it is framed. Every decision maker and citizen interprets an issue from their own vantage point, with reference...