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...

Will the Philippine National Elections Help Strengthen Democracy?

01.06.2022

With a population of just over 110 million, the Philippines will hold presidential elections on May 9. This will be the largest election in Asia in 2022. This will end Rodrigo Duterte’s presidency, as Philippine presidents are constitutionally barred from serving more than a single six-year te...

CIPE launches second PNG COVID-19 impact survey report

11.30.2021

The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), through its flagship program in Papua New Guinea (PNG) the Women’s Business Resource Centre (WBRC), hosted a virtual event to launch its second survey report on the impact of COVID-19 on 144 women-owned and -operated Micro, Small, and Medium ...

Democracy That Delivers #297: Women and Girls Empowered – Search for Common Ground

11.23.2021 |

The Democracy that Delivers “Women and Girls Empowered” (WAGE) mini-series spotlights the WAGE core partners’ women empowerment projects. In the last of four episodes, our host Ken Jaques gets to know Search for Common Ground (SfCG) Research, Evaluation & Learning Specialist Aisalky...

Democracy That Delivers #296: Global Entrepreneurship Week – Encouraging Innovation among Students in Papua New Guinea, with Pacific Adventist University

11.16.2021 |

Dr. Khin Mg Kyi, Dean of the School of Business at Pacific Adventist University, joins hosts Ken Jaques and Kim Bettcher for the Democracy that Delivers podcast Global Entrepreneurship Week mini-series final episode. They discuss ways to encourage young people to start their own businesses i...

Democracy That Delivers #295: Global Entrepreneurship Week – Encouraging Innovation among Students in Papua New Guinea, with IBSUniversity

11.11.2021 |

Steve Kimbu, Senior Lecturer at IBSUniversity in Papua New Guinea, joins the Democracy that Delivers podcast host Ken Jaques and CIPE Policy and Program Learning Director Kim Bettcher for the first of a two-part mini-series in celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week. Kimbu teaches ways to encou...

ESG Advocacy through MSMEs in South Asia Can Deliver Labor-Business Symbiosis

11.11.2021

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has reoriented international and private sector attention toward the lack of regulation and compliance that harmed international workers embedded within global supply chains. Consecutive, deadly South Asian industrial incidents and violations of workers rights are stark...

Center for Women’s Economic Empowerment Impact of COVID-19 on Women’s Business Associations: Global survey results

11.08.2021

In support of the Global Entrepreneurship Network and the 2021 Global Entrepreneurship Week, as well as November 19 – Women’s Entrepreneurship Day – the Center for Women’s Economic Empowerment and CIPE’s Philippines office, are releasing results of a global survey with ...

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...