Blog - Center for International Private Enterprise

The Significance of the Evergrande Liquidity Crisis

01.14.2022

The private sector in China faces many challenges, from lackluster global demand to government regulatory interventions. Of the many recent events, from Ant Group to the collapse of online tutoring industry, the default of China Evergrande Group is the most noteworthy given the high potential impact...

BRI Monitor: Bringing Local Voices and Transparency to the Belt and Road

01.10.2022

How can recipient countries ensure that foreign investment is beneficial to their economic goals and their people? The BRI Monitor is a venture by five think tanks from Southeast Asia and the Pacific to track the transparency of projects funded by China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Initial fi...

Democracy that Delivers #302: What to Do About Corruption Enablers with Frank Vogl

01.06.2022 |

Anti-Corruption author and Transparency International Co-Founder Frank Vogl joins the CIPE Anti-Corruption & Governance Center podcast this week to discuss his new book, The Enablers: How the West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption. Vogl reviews the recommendations of his book, which shines ...

Democracy that Delivers #300: Summit for Democracy – Addressing & Fighting Corruption, with Michael Johnston & Jodi Vittori

12.07.2021 |

Professors Michael Johnston (Colgate) and Jodi Vittori (Georgetown) join guest host Frank Brown, Director of CIPE’s Anti-Corruption & Governance Center. This is part of a mini-series around President Biden’s Summit for Democracy. Specifically, they talk about ways to improve an...

Democracy That Delivers #294: Has Compliance Created a ‘Fabrication Culture’ in Emerging Market Businesses? – with Ethics Expert Hui Chen

11.09.2021 |

Hui Chen, an internationally renowned leader in ethics and compliance, discusses the “uncomfortable” position that emerging market small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) occupy with respect to global integrity and anti-corruption standards. Drawing on Chen’s decades of experie...

Helping Federalism Deliver on its Promise: The Case of Motorbike Licenses in Nepal

10.25.2021

Two-wheelers are integral to basic transportation for most people in Nepal. Motorbikes save time and money for average Nepali citizens, small businesses and entrepreneurs, serving as an efficient means for work and school commutes, ridesharing, goods transportation, and other daily necessities. For...

Democracy That Delivers #291: Why Business Standards Lept “3-5 Years…in 1 Year” with Tom Fox, Compliance Lawyer

10.21.2021 |

Tom Fox, the extraordinarily prolific and knowledgeable host of the popular FCPA Compliance Report, talks about the link between two hot topics in the corporate compliance world – anti-corruption and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance), in the latest episode of the CIPE Anti-Corruptio...

CIPE congratulates Nobel Prize Winner Maria Ressa

10.12.2021

CIPE is proud to have collaborated with Nobel Prize Winner Maria Ressa and her organization Rappler on amplifying civil society stakeholders’ voice in good governance. The Nobel Peace Prize is often awarded to someone who has spent many years promoting the cause of freedom, rather than someone wh...

Democracy That Delivers #288: ESG & Anti-Corruption with ELEVATE CEO Ian Spaulding

10.07.2021 |

Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) expert and ELEVATE Limited CEO Ian Spaulding joins the CIPE Anti-Corruption & Governance Center (ACGC) podcast this week to discuss the interplay between anti-corruption and new ESG approaches to managing global supply chains. Spaulding explains th...

Democracy that Delivers #286: COVID and Corruption in Latin America – Risks of Structural Corruption in Brazil

09.28.2021 |

Democracy that Delivers “COVID and Corruption in Latin America” mini-series cohosts Ken Jaques and Elena Padbury wrap up this recap of our recently released report. Last but not least of its country case studies is Brasil, presented by Laís Piasentini Oliva, Advocacy Analyst at the�...