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Democracy that Delivers #263: How ‘Access Money’ Corruption Boosts and Threatens China’s Growth with Yuen Yuen Ang, PhD

05.06.2021 |

Political scientist, China scholar, and University of Michigan professor Yuen Yuen Ang, PhD, joins the CIPE Anti-Corruption & Governance Center podcast this week to provide an expert’s guide to how corruption has supercharged and complicated China’s blistering rate of economic growth. Shar...

Amplifying the Voice of Asian Women in the Economy

03.30.2021

Women around the world face legal, regulatory, and social barriers to doing business. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated these barriers, by disproportionately impacting women-majority industries and placing the burden of care for children and the sick even more heavily on women’s shoulders. ...

Social Media Campaign Highlights Papua New Guinea Women’s Business Resource Center

03.12.2021

The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) and the Papua New Guinea Women’s Business Resource Centre (PNG WBRC) are joining the global community in recognizing the progress made by women who have played exceptional roles in their communities, and in promoting the importance of women’...

Democracy That Delivers #245: Myanmar Coup, Protests, and Life on the Ground with Khin Lay, Founder and Director of Triangle Women’s Support Group

02.16.2021 |

Myanmar, also known as Burma, is under the control of its army after a military coup overturned a free and fair election on February 1, 2021. On this episode of Democracy that Delivers we’re joined by Khin Lay, a civil society leader living and working in the country; she shares an inside look at...

Tracking the Right to Information in Asia

02.11.2021

Across Asia, the process of obtaining government information through transparent mechanisms is a challenge. Many countries in the region still lack national laws defining the Right to Information (RTI), a crucial component for developing and maintaining public trust in government. Since the ability ...

Democracy That Delivers Episode #241: Using Sri Lanka’s New Right To Information Law To Follow The Money

01.29.2021

In this latest episode, CIPE’s Anti-Corruption & Governance Center features Hasna Munas, an analyst for Verité Research, Sri Lanka’s leading independent think tank. She tells an insider’s story of the development of Sri Lanka’s first-ever Right To Information (RTI) law five yea...

Does 2021 Bring A Looming Constitutional Crisis in Nepal?

01.27.2021

The personal interests of Nepal’s political leaders do not align with the aspirations of Nepali citizens. That is why the fate of the world’s youngest federal democracy is again uncertain. When the country held general elections in 2017, giving the federal government a two-third majority, there ...

Women’s Business Resource Centre in Papua New Guinea Entering its Fifth Year

12.18.2020

The Women’s Business Resource Centre (WBRC) in Papua New Guinea is entering its fifth year of helping to democratize opportunity in PNG by breaking down barriers faced by women entrepreneurs. The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) takes a look back at four years of ground-breaking ...

Familiar Challenges in Thailand’s New COVID-19 Reality

09.16.2020

Frustration at Thailand’s government is boiling over. The country’s leaders are censoring their critics and targeting opposition parties, limiting even the narrow space normally available for democratic involvement in governing. Now, adding fuel to that fire, the COVID-19 pandemic has presented...

The Impact of the Hong Kong National Security Law on the Private Sector

09.15.2020

The situation in Hong Kong has deteriorated dramatically since the passage of the National Security Law on June 30. In the past several months, we have seen impacts ranging from the disbandment of several prominent pro-democracy political groups, the firing of two faculties who are linked to democra...