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Democracy That Delivers #189 – Syeed Ahamed on Youth Leadership Development in Bangladesh

02.20.2020 |

Syeed Ahamed is a public policy analyst and CEO of the public policy think-tank— Institute of Informatics and Development (IID) that aims to make policy public. Last year, CIPE began the first of a multi-phase program with IID. In the first phase, CIPE and IID selected 101 young people thr...

Democracy That Delivers #188: Ilhom Aliev on Entrepreneurship and Doing Business in Tajikistan

02.11.2020 |

Read Ilhom’s recent paper on “The Digital Generation and Startups in Tajikistan.” Tajikistan, a country of approximately 9 million, is the poorest of the post-Soviet states. Remittances from labor migrants – over 1 million of whom travel to Russia each year for work – make up ...

Cut from the Same Cloth: Entrepreneurship in Guatemala

11.20.2019

The jacket had lived an entire existence before I even laid my eyes on it. Threads of deep burgundy, coral and gold were transformed by hand into an elegant fabric in the western highlands of Guatemala. It was cut and sewn, then cut and sewn again, into a magnificent jacket. A few weeks later,...

Solving Global Youth Unemployment – My experience since writing the CIPE Essay

10.31.2019

At a recent YALI Mandela Fellowship Expo where Program Officer Ryan Musser was representing CIPE, he met a Mandela fellow who won a CIPE essay contest several years ago on Economically-Sustainable Development, in which he wrote about economic opportunity for youth. His name was Babatunde Oladosu, an...

Democracy That Delivers #175: Skills that Pay the Bills – Democratizing Opportunity for Youth & Fostering Opportunity Entrepreneurship in North Macedonia

10.15.2019 |

To enhance the capacity of Macedonian youth to engage in entrepreneurship, CIPE, William Davidson Institute (WDI) of the University of Michigan, and Youth Educational Forum (YEF) have partnered to develop a comprehensive youth entrepreneurship training program for North Macedonia. Since its pilot i...

Democracy That Delivers #166: Ali Ayadi on CIPE’s Work in Tunisia

07.30.2019 |

We are joined by Ali Ayadi, CIPE’s Country Representative in Tunisia, to discuss the changing social, political and economic environment of the country. He and host Ken Jaques begin by discussing the recent passing of the late President of Tunisia, Beji Caid Essebsi. Ayadi then discusses some of ...

“The Government We Want:” Invigorating Citizen Participation for Good Governance Reforms in the Philippines

10.15.2018

For global observers of democratic governance and the rule of law, recent developments in the Philippines have been discouraging. Headlines on the current administration’s apprehension of political prisoners, authorization of extrajudicial killings, and subordination of the rule of law underscore...

Getting Africa’s Double Dividend to Deliver

10.09.2018

This opinion piece was originally published in “The Hitch News.” When a photo of Ghanaian teacher Richard Appiah Akoto went viral last February, a world of social media outsiders were quick to comment on Mr. Akoto’s superhuman dedication to teaching. While it is easy to stop at the feel-good,...

Skills That Pay The Bills: Matching Education With Opportunity In Macedonia

08.09.2018

Ahead of International Youth Day, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) is reflecting on the crucial role that today’s generation of young people can play in the development of their countries. When young adults are actively engaged in their economies as entrepreneurs, they creat...

Public-Private Partnership Equips Young People with In-Demand Technical Skills

04.10.2018

Brazil is still recovering from the worst recession in its history. The debilitating two-year slowdown that ended in 2017 left 14 million people unemployed—mainly young workers. But the country’s oldest public-private partnership may be able to counter youth unemployment by supplying busine...