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Stories from Guatemala: How a New CIPE Center is Helping Women Turn Their Business Ideas into Reality (Part 4)

11.03.2022

We continue to share inspiring stories from Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, the site of a new Women’s Business Resource Center (WBRC) established by CIPE and the National Network of Managers’ Groups (in Spanish: Red Nacional de Grupos Gestores, or RNGG). The Corali Center is a physical space whic...

Stories from Guatemala: How the Women Leaders of Corali are Helping Women Entrepreneurs Achieve their Dreams (Part 3)

09.26.2022

Corali Women’s Business Resource Center – Making Dreams Come to Life Over the past few months, we have shared success stories of the women alumni of CIPE’s Women’s Business Resource Center (“Corali”) in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. The center, founded in late 2021, is primarily led...

Democracy that Delivers #343: Emerging Leaders – Interns

09.21.2022 |

Interns Camila Cepeda and Tina Dolbaia join their supervisors Morgan King, Associate Program Officer on the Latin America and Caribbean team, and Elizabeth Lenz Jedwab, Program Officer on the Europe and Eurasia team to talk the projects they have been working on and what it is like intern...

Democracy that Delivers #340: Regional AEO to Simplify Trade in LAC

08.31.2022 |

As a key implementing partner of the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation, CIPE is leading major reforms in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to democratize trade and make it more accessible to everyone. Among the many recent Alliance-supported projects: a recent landmark arrangement between eleven...

Stories from Guatemala: How A New CIPE Center is Helping Women Turn Their Business Ideas Into Reality (Part 2)

08.08.2022

Corali Women’s Business Resource Center – Making Dreams Come to Life We continue to share inspiring stories from Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, the site of a new Women’s Business Resource Center established by CIPE and the National Network of Managers’ Groups (Red Nacional de Grupos Gestores �...

Stories from Guatemala: How A New CIPE Center is Helping Women Turn Their Business Ideas Into Reality (Part 1)

07.27.2022

Corali Women’s Business Resource Center – Making Dreams Come to Life In late 2021, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) and the National Network of Managers’ Groups (Red Nacional de Grupos Gestores – RNGG) established a Women’s Business Resource Center, named “C...

Entrevistas sobre el Futuro del Trabajo en Latinoamérica

05.24.2022 |

El 25 de marzo del 2022, CIPE grabó dos entrevistas para destacar dos temas que formaron parte de la conferencia del Futuro del Trabajo en Latinoamérica. Junto con Santiago Laserna del Centro de Estudios de la Realidad Económica y Social (CERES) y Laurence Pantin de Mexico Evalúa se discutieron ...

Optimize Procedures to Gain Competitiveness

04.13.2022

Originally published in Spanish (as seen and translated below) in Revista Enlace Portuario Edition No. 29, 2022. Page 48. Guatemala is working to facilitate international maritime trade. Arrival and departure clearance of vessels, at any port, implies the exchange of information and the execution of...

Democracy that Delivers #320: Strengthening Resilience: Lessons from Argentina and Ecuador

04.08.2022 |

In the third episode of the “Strengthening Resilience: Global Perspectives” mini-series, CIPE speaks with two organizations: the Quito Chamber of Commerce based in Ecuador, and Fundacion Libertad, based in Argentina. During this podcast, our host Tomas Mandl, Program Officer for Latin ...

An Example from Colombia Highlights the Importance of Trade Facilitation

03.31.2022

For a long time, if you were a company that imports or exports to other countries and had questions about your goods, chances were that you would not receive an answer until your shipment reached the border. If that question was not simple but complex, it would typically take 3-4 months for you to ...