Blog - Center for International Private Enterprise

“Crony State Capitalism” and Private-Sector Responses

Over the last several years, CIPE frequently observed that the quality of foreign investments impacts domestic business ecosystems and institutional performance. However, questions remain about the ways that these processes are evolving. To further CIPE’s exploration into this phenomenon and conti...

Democracy that Delivers #353: Factoring in Geopolitical Risks When Investing

Larry Chan and Daniel Hong from Free World Investment join Eric Hontz, Director of CIPE’s Center for Accountable Investment and Catherine Tai, Deputy Regional Director of CIPE’s Asia and Pacific team to discuss the considerations of geopolitical risks when investing. Free World Investme...

Democracy that Delivers #341: The Tricky Business of Unmasking Beneficial Owners with Open Ownership’s Thom Townsend

Thom Townsend, Executive Director of Open Ownership, joins the CIPE Anti-Corruption & Governance Center podcast to talk about the past, present, and future of beneficial ownership transparency. Townsend draws from his organization’s experience in over 30 countries unmasking the peop...

Introducing CIPE’s 2022 Youth Leaders

Investing in and Involving Youth This month, youth advocates around the globe celebrated the 23rd UN-designated International Youth Day on August 12. This year’s International Youth Day was dedicated to the concept of intergenerational solidarity, reinforcing the idea that youth play an indispensa...

Democracy that Delivers #330: ESG Standards, Principles, and the Future of Business

In this new podcast by CIPE’s Anti-Corruption & Governance Center, Magdalena Krzysztofik and Wouter Scheepens from consultancy firm Steward Redqueen address how Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) standards and principles are shaping the future of businesses in emerging markets. Lis...

Optimize Procedures to Gain Competitiveness

Originally published in Spanish (as seen and translated below) in Revista Enlace Portuario Edition No. 29, 2022. Page 48. Guatemala is working to facilitate international maritime trade. Arrival and departure clearance of vessels, at any port, implies the exchange of information and the execution of...

Empowering Georgia’s Private Sector to Comply with Georgia’s New Labor Legislation: Success Stories from Business Associations

Together with the Solidarity Center, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) is managing a project, “Engaging Workers and Civil Society to Strengthen Labor Law Enforcement,”* in Georgia. The program was launched in 2020 and is funded by the U.S. Department of Labor. Under this pro...

Building CSO’s Capacity to Engage in Large-scale Infrastructures in Sri Lanka

As part of the project with the U.S. Department of State (DoS) – Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs (SCA) on large-scale infrastructure in Sri Lanka, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) has recently partnered with five new organizations, as well as Verité Research (V...

Mitigating the Adverse Side Effects of Russian Sanctions in Central Asia

In response to Russia’s unprecedented military assault on Ukraine, Moscow has been subjected to a barrage of comprehensive and stringent sanctions from the United States, members of the European Union, and other countries worldwide. The aim of sanctions is to quickly restrict Russia’s ability to...

Spotlight: OECD WISE Center Calls For New Ways to Measure Social Performance

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Centre on Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity (WISE) aims to put people and their well-being at the center of public policy by generating new data and approaches to improve people’s well-being and reduce in...