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Democracy that Delivers #352: Update on the Current Economic Situation in Lebanon

12.07.2022 |

Dr. Patrick Mardini, CEO of the Lebanese Institute for Market Studies (LIMS) joins Marie Principe, Program Officer for CIPE’s Middle East and North Africa team to discuss the current status of Lebanon amid the economic crisis and private sector led solutions. LIMS is a platform for research, ...

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

09.08.2022 |

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...

Democracy that Delivers #308: The Cost of Business in Emerging Markets

02.22.2022 |

Stephen Renna, Senior Managing Director, Global Strategies & Solutions at Ankura, joins CIPE’s Democracy that Delivers podcast to discuss the challenges of doing business in emerging markets. He tells co-hosts Marc Schleifer and Laura Farhang that American companies that want to operate ...

Facilitating Online Meetings and Events: Key Considerations for Local Private Sector Organizations

01.10.2022

Online meetings and events offer a unique opportunity for business membership organizations (BMOs) and other civil society organizations (CSOs) to reach wider audiences than ever before while significantly reducing expenses and time, for both attendees and organizers. The COVID-19 pandemic forced co...

National Women’s Business Agendas for Central Asia

11.29.2021

This piece was first posted on the WAGE blog. The American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI)-led Women and Girls Empowered (WAGE) consortium, funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues, is pleased to announce its new initiative “N...

Transforming Nigeria’s Regulatory Environment to Enhance Competition for Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

10.21.2021

In February 2019, CIPE’s longtime partner the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) together with the Convention for Business Integrity (CBi) and CIPE’s Lagos Office embarked on a collaborative project to improve transparency and trust amongst government regulatory agencie...

სოციალური მედია კეთილი მიზნებისთვის: Facebook -ის ეფექტური გამოყენებით CIPE ქართულ ბიზნესს შრომის ახალი კანონმდებლობის აღსრულებაში ეხმარება

09.16.2021

დღესდღეობით გადატვირთული მედიასივრცის პირობებში, სოციალური მედიის ეფექტური გამოყენება ძალიან მნიშვნელოვნი�...

Using Social Media for Good: How CIPE is Leveraging Facebook to Help Georgian Businesses Comply with New Labor Legislation

09.01.2021

In today’s crowded media information scene, the effective use of social media plays a key role in ensuring that important information reaches the right audience. At the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the Safe Business is Your Choice awareness campaign is one example of how thi...

PLCC-CIPE co-host Manila Forum on DEI

07.19.2021

Capping off this year’s Pride Month and putting the spotlight on LGBTQI+ small business recovery efforts in the time of COVID-19, the Philippine LGBT Chamber of Commerce (PLCC) and Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) co-hosted the online event with the theme “Recover with Pride,&#...

Democracy That Delivers #267: LGBTQI+ Economic Empowerment with Angel Romero

06.29.2021 |

In honor of Pride Month 2021, our host Ken Jaques and CIPE’s Asia-Pacific Program Officer Gibson Haynes invite Angel Romero, the Director for Partnership & External Affairs of the Philippines LGBT Chamber of Commerce, to join the podcast. Our organizations’ partnership is CIPE̵...