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Foreign Investment in a Post-COVID-19 World

10.21.2020

Driving Economic Growth and Good Governance while Protecting National Security Just as the adverse health effects of COVID-19 will not vanish immediately but will be resolved in stages, so too will the global economy recover in stages, across industries and around the world. As both Western economie...

Democracy That Delivers #229: Inter-Afghan Peace Negotiations, with Manizha Wafeq

10.20.2020 |

In this podcast, Erinn Benedict, Program Officer for the Center for Women’s Economic Empowerment (CWEE) at CIPE, is joined by renowned guest Manizha Wafeq. They discuss CIPE’s support for women’s economic empowerment in Afghanistan and women’s roles in the long-awaited Inter-Afghan peac...

Unstable Ground: Analyzing Kenya’s Property Markets

10.19.2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance for countries to build robust domestic institutions that can provide equitable economic and social opportunities. For instance, in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, mass government evictions earlier this year displaced more than 5,000 people, putting the...

Democracy That Delivers #228: Inter-Afghan Peace Negotiations, with Mohammed Nasib

10.16.2020 |

We are joined by Mohammed Nasib, CIPE Country Director for Afghanistan, and Babak Yektafar, CIPE Senior Program Officer for the Middle East and North Africa. They discuss the work that CIPE has done in Afghanistan to help the country’s democratic development and assess how that work and futur...

Collaborating for Inclusive Prosperity: The Gambia’s National Business Council

10.16.2020

The Gambian business community is a leading responder and advocate for public health during the COVID-19 pandemic. In March of 2020, the Gambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) organized a telethon to mobilize businesses across the country to donate funds for COVID relief efforts led by the p...

Democracy That Delivers #227: Forestry Compliance with Alfredo Rodriguez

10.14.2020 |

In this episode of CIPE’s Anti-Corruption & Governance Center podcast series, we are joined by Alfredo Rodriguez, the Asia-Pacific Regional Coordinator for the Timber Regulation Enforcement Exchange (TREE) program within the Forest Policy, Trade, and Finance Initiative. Based in South Korea, ...

Revitalizing Private Investment in Colombian Regions Most Affected by Poverty & Violence

10.07.2020

CIPE is working with Colombia’s Jaime Arteaga and Associates (JA&A) to monitor the level of investment in Region-Focused Development Programs (PDETs in Spanish). These programs were introduced by the Colombian government in 2017 in the 170 municipalities most affected by violence. Since the 20...

Democracy That Delivers #226: Innovations to Address the Pandemic and Assist in Economic Recovery

10.05.2020 |

We are joined by Laura Maclay, Program Associate for Africa at CIPE, and Moses Akidadi Injenga of the Vihiga chapter of the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KNCCI-Vihiga), a winner of CIPE’s Africa Associations Innovations Contest, which aimed to celebrate and highlight business m...

Democracy That Delivers #225: How to Support Whistleblowers, with Jim Wasserstrom (Part III)

10.02.2020 |

Episode 3 of a 3-part podcast with Jim Wasserstrom, part of our Anti-Corruption and Governance Center (ACGC) series. Jim Wasserstrom is the Director and Founder of the Wasserstrom Group and the former Chief of Party for Democracy International in Afghanistan. He is a whistleblower and former United...

Democracy That Delivers #224: What it Means to be a Whistleblower, with Jim Wasserstrom (Part II)

10.01.2020 |

Episode 2 of a 3-part podcast with Jim Wasserstrom, part of our Anti-Corruption and Governance Center (ACGC) series. Jim Wasserstrom is the Director and Founder of the Wasserstrom Group and the former Chief of Party for Democracy International in Afghanistan. He is a whistleblower and former United...