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Democracy That Delivers #186: Assessing the Role of Municipalities In Facilitating Ease of Doing Business

01.28.2020 |

This week on Democracy That Delivers, Zia Banday, the Joint Executive Director of PRIME Institute, a public policy research organization and think tank, discusses the subject of democratic governance reform in Pakistan. He highlights PRIME’s work in assessing the role of municipalities in fac...

Democracy That Delivers #183: Priscilla Clapp On Her Global Career

01.08.2020 |

Priscilla Clapp joins us on CIPE’s Democracy That Delivers podcast this week. She is currently a senior advisor to the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Asia Society, and is a retired Minister-Counselor in the U.S. Foreign Service. Host Ken Jaques asks her to share some stories on her insightfu...

Democracy That Delivers #181 – Narayan Adhikari on Fighting Corruption in Nepal with the Accountability Lab

12.10.2019 |

This week on Democracy That Delivers we are joined by Narayan Adhikari from Nepal’s Accountability Lab. He and host Ken Jaques discuss his work in developing a number of innovative tools for accountability and open government, including a pioneering television show and movement called Integri...

Nepal: Shifting Gear from South to North

11.19.2019

Nepal, sandwiched between China and India, plays a limited role in the global arena, however for China and India, who are two of the largest players in world politics and economy, the small Himalayan nation holds strong strategic interest. India, which surrounds Nepal on three sides, has always asse...

Synergizing Sub-National Stakeholders on Governance and Accountability – Lessons from Pakistan

11.04.2019

With a population of over 200 million people, Pakistan is ranked as 6th largest country in the world. Since its independence from British-India in 1947, Pakistan remained under military government rule for three decades. Interestingly, military rulers initiated empowerment at the sub-national level ...

Right to Information Act—Driving Accountability through Improved Access to Information

10.18.2019

The paucity of information on the use of public funds in Sri Lanka has typically impeded the public from holding the government accountable for its spending. The lack of visibility tends to leave mismanagement, poor planning and a lack of accountability undetected, which has resulted in the poor im...

Communicating to Transform, not Inform

10.18.2019

Good research, data, and dialogue across key stakeholders are the foundations of good policy making. By contrast, the absence of such research, data and dialogue can lead to unanticipated consequences from policy reform, or the failure to achieve desired change. At Verité Research, we aim to contr...

A Philippine Case Study in Improving Local Governance

10.04.2019

How does the governance of a city become unstuck? How did Mayor Jonas Cortes of Mandaue City, the Philippines, move past a corruption scandal which he inherited and establish clean governance, a business-friendly environment, and participation of the poor? Robert Klitgaard and Melissa Mahone...

Working towards Peace in Conflict and Post-Conflict Regions

09.26.2019

Every September 21 the United Nations celebrates its International Day of Peace to highlight progress being made towards a more harmonious world. But while we celebrate, there is no shortage of conflict around the world, and certain countries remain less stable than others. Recently, homicide...

Pakistani Businesses Consider CPEC Projects Non-Participatory

07.11.2019

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), signed between the two countries in 2013, stands as the largest single-country investment portfolio in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, with most recent figures placing total investment pledges around USD $62 billion. CPEC is meant to target Pakistan�...