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Democracy That Delivers #195: Closing The Gender Gap in Access to Finance with IFC’s Heather Mae Kipnis

03.31.2020 |

We close out Women’s History Month with a podcast with the Women’s Entrepreneurship Product Lead for the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) Gender Secretariat, Heather Mae Kipnis, and CIPE’s Director for the Center for Women’s Economic Empowerment, Barbara La...

Democracy That Delivers #194: What Can Business Do To Combat Corruption?

03.24.2020 |

In this podcast Dr. Elizabeth David-Barrett, Professor of Governance and Integrity and Director of the Centre for the Study of Corruption, University of Sussex, joins Peter Glover, Program Officer for CIPE’s Anti-Corruption and Governance Center. They discuss major trends in the global anti-corru...

The Power of Constituency

01.31.2020

In his opening remarks for CIPE’s event, Leveraging the Private Sector to Improve the Economic Enabling Environment for Women, Executive Director Andrew Wilson suggested that power is not given, but taken. Wilson went on to describe four phases of empowerment, including: taking control/power of y...

The SME Governance Guidebook

11.11.2019

What would lead Slim Othmani, CEO of a mid-size, family-owned food manufacturing firm in Algeria, to adopt corporate governance practices? What would it mean for his company’s growth, investor relations, and family relations? For Othmani, his motivations to adopt new practices were about managing ...

Democracy That Delivers #176: Introduction to Women And Girls Empowered (WAGE)

10.22.2019 |

We are joined this week by consortium members of the Women And Girls Empowered program (WAGE) to introduce this global programming consortium. The mission of WAGE is to advance the status of women and girls around the world. The program is funded by the U.S Department of State’s Office for Gl...

Democracy That Delivers #172: Technical Guidance and Anti-Corruption Reform

09.24.2019

In this episode of Democracy That Delivers, we are joined by Peter Glover, Associate program Officer of CIPE’s Anti-Corruption and Governance Center, and special guest Schuyler Miller. Miller recently returned from Trinity College in Dublin, where he completed coursework for his Master...

Democracy That Delivers #171: Why Trade Matters with Jose Raul Perales

09.17.2019 |

In this week’s Democracy That Delivers, we are joined by José Raúl Perales, Deputy Director of the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation (GATF) at CIPE. Perales and host Ken Jaques discuss the beginnings of GATF’s work with CIPE, and how trade and the private sector can work better t...

World Chambers Congress – Notes from the Field Part III: Emerging Market Perspectives

09.05.2019

This is Part III of a three-part blog series. Read Part I and Part II. In addition to the themes of the 11th World Chambers Congress (WCC) in Rio de Janeiro that I discussed in my two earlier posts, there was also an interesting conversation about the need for building inclusive and vibrant emergin...

World Chambers Congress – Notes from the Field Part II: Building Transparent and Inclusive Markets

08.29.2019

This is Part II of a three-part blog series. Read Part I. Transparency and fair trade are key for the development of inclusive markets around the world. In addition, 68% of countries around the world point to corruption as a serious problem for economic development because of its effects o...

An Opportunity for the Economic Empowerment of Women Athletes

08.02.2019

On July 7, 2019, the US Women’s National Team (USWNT) deservedly won its unprecedented 4th soccer world championship in France, becoming only the second women’s national team to successfully defend its title. For many, the latest edition of this global tournament offered a vast field of femal...