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Advocating For a Better Economic Environment for Refugees
Refugee youth in Kakuma Refugee camp embody the endurance of the human spirit. A study carried out by the International Financial Corporation (IFC) in 2018 took a unique look at Kakuma Refugee Camp a...
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Fasika Hone: A Success Story from Ethiopia

01.24.2022
Following a COVID-19 impact assessment in Ethiopia, CIPE established a revolving loan fund to benefit marginal economic actors – specifically women-owned businesses – to recover from the devastating consequences of the economic downturn triggered by the pandemic. To close the widening finance ga...

Yekaba Abera: A Success Story from Ethiopia

01.24.2022
Following a COVID-19 impact assessment in Ethiopia, CIPE established a revolving loan fund to benefit marginal economic actors – specifically women-owned businesses – to recover from the devastating consequences of the economic downturn triggered by the pandemic. To close the widening finance ga...

BRI Monitor: Boosting Transparency, Strengthening Governance Frameworks

01.20.2022
How can countries ensure that Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) investments help construct more equitable, connected, and sustainable societies? Numerous reports highlight the risks associated with some state-directed overseas Chinese investment and other capital from authoritarian countries, also kno...

The Significance of the Evergrande Liquidity Crisis

01.14.2022
The private sector in China faces many challenges, from lackluster global demand to government regulatory interventions. Of the many recent events, from Ant Group to the collapse of online tutoring industry, the default of China Evergrande Group is the most noteworthy given the high potential impact...

Democracy that Delivers #303: Emerging Leaders in Policy and Program Learning

01.12.2022 |
A quartet of guests join host Ken Jaques to discuss their work at CIPE. They include Autumn Moore and Zoe Watkins from the Communications department, and Adam Goldstein and Mikra Krasniqi from the Policy and Program Learning department. This is the first episode in a series that will f...

Spotlight: OECD’s COVID-19 Recovery Dashboard

01.12.2022
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Centre on Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity (WISE) aims to put people and their well-being at the center of public policy by generating new data and approaches to improve people’s well-being and reduce ine...

BRI Monitor: Bringing Local Voices and Transparency to the Belt and Road

01.10.2022
How can recipient countries ensure that foreign investment is beneficial to their economic goals and their people? The BRI Monitor is a venture by five think tanks from Southeast Asia and the Pacific to track the transparency of projects funded by China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Initial fi...

Will the Philippine National Elections Help Strengthen Democracy?

01.06.2022
With a population of just over 110 million, the Philippines will hold presidential elections on May 9. This will be the largest election in Asia in 2022. This will end Rodrigo Duterte’s presidency, as Philippine presidents are constitutionally barred from serving more than a single six-year te...
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