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Democracy that Delivers #346: Opportunities for Informal Workers to Defend Democracy Around the World

10.12.2022 |

Wisborn Malaya, Secretary-General of the Zimbabwe Chamber of Informal Economy Associations (ZCIEA) joins Ryan Musser, Program Officer for CIPE’s Africa team and Kim Bettcher, Director of CIPE’s Policy and Program Learning team to discuss Malaya’s experiences and insight into the i...

How Polish SMEs, Business Associations, and Chambers of Commerce are Helping Ukrainian Refugee Businesses

09.27.2022

Banding Together to Support Ukrainian Refugees Individual businesses and various business membership organizations across the world are banding together to help Ukrainian citizens that have been displaced due to the Russian invasion. Refugees are pouring into Poland, and the private sector has trave...

Primer on Decentralization

05.11.2022

Decentralization Over the last decades, development and democracy practitioners and theorists have worked to understand, and at times, implement decentralization. All countries have a degree of decentralized governance, but the extent to which a country’s government, administrative responsibiliti...

Do Free Trade Zones Stimulate Entrepreneurship? | 10:00 AM ET, Monday, February 28, 2022

CIPE Unveils New Webinar Series: Research Unbound

02.15.2022

The Policy & Program Learning team is excited to announce our new webinar series, Research Unbound. In 2021, CIPE launched a new applied research initiative to engage business leaders in emerging democracies with actionable knowledge on policy solutions for democratic free-market systems. ...

CIPE Learning Expo Highlights Best Practices

02.08.2022

CIPE lives out its values of learning and innovation externally and internally. For employees, CIPE recently held its first annual Learning Expo on the theme of “Tipping the Scales: Positioning Democratic and Economic Reforms for Impact.” The January 28 expo combined a panel discussion, ...

Creating the Environment for Entrepreneurial Success: A Special Report

11.19.2013

Entrepreneurs drive change. They provide the ideas, initiative, and leadership to invigorate development and transform society. They are therefore pivotal partners of the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) in the pursuit of its mission: to strengthen democracy around the globe throu...