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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 ...

Democracy that Delivers #313: Emerging Women Leaders in Latin America and Caribbean

03.10.2022 |

On this episode of Democracy that Delivers, we are joined by guests Morgan King and Abby Guen and host John Zemko, all members of the CIPE Latin America and Caribbean team. This episode continues the Emerging Leaders mini-series, co-hosted by Autumn Moore and Zoe Watkins from the Communications t...

Democracy that Delivers #312: How to Help Women Level the Playing Field

03.08.2022 |

Erika Díaz Ulloa, a lawyer and a specialist in compliance matters, joins CIPE’s Democracy that Delivers podcast for International Women’s Day 2022 to talk about the challenges women face in the marketplace. She tells CIPE co-hosts Barbara Langley and Staci Samuels why women-owned businesse...

Corali: CIPE’s New Women’s Business Resource Center in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala

02.22.2022

Guatemala has one of the widest gender equity gaps in the world. It is ranked number 122 out of 156 countries in the 2021 Global Gender Gap Report by the World Economic Forum. In addition to the gender gap in economic participation, entrepreneurship, and employment, the women who become active e...

Democracy that Delivers #307: Rapid Response — Extractive Industry on Freedom of Speech and Press in Ecuador

02.19.2022 |

In the latest episode in the anti-corruption rapid response mini-series, Mauricio Alarcón-Salvador, the Executive Director of the Ecaudorian anti-corruption organization Fundación Ciudadania y Desarrollo (FCD), spoke about FCD and CIPE’s rapid response program in Ecuador. Host Peter Glover�...

CIPE in Mexico: Active Projects and What the Future Holds

02.08.2022

CIPE is paving the way for a stronger democracy in Mexico through innovative programming and private sector-oriented solutions. Mexico has been an important area for CIPE programming, both as the second-largest economy in Latin America, and a critical southern partner to the U.S. and Canada. CIPE be...

Tourism as a Mechanism for Economic Transformation in Post-conflict Colombian Regions

01.06.2022

CIPE and its partner Jaime Arteaga & Associates (JA&A) manage the Observatory of Private Investment in the Zones Most Affected by the Conflict, a collection of economic indicators that measure economic activity in post-conflict regions of Colombia covered by the national government’s p...