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The power of purpose

What are some of the key reasons why employees choose a particular company and what determines how long they stay? There are some obvious answers like compensation, benefits, growth opportunities, or flexible schedule. But another factor is becoming more and more prominent: purpose. According to a...

Locking Out Small Businesses in Novorossiysk

By Yulia Rostovikova and Natalia Titova. For years, the small business owners and entrepreneurs of the Russian port city of Novorossiysk had been working to overturn an obscure but odious regulation from the Central Bank of Russia. The regulation, called Letter Number 18, required all businesses ...

Including Youth: Meet the Essay Contest Winners, Part 2

Across the globe, young people are at the forefront of movements to improve living conditions, economic opportunity, and society as a whole. Despite their activism, in many countries like Egypt youth voices remain overlooked. In others, youth are promised political participation that never comes to...

Civil Society Restores Twitter Access in Pakistan

On May 20, the Pakistani Information Ministry blocked access to world’s largest micro blogging site, Twitter, on the pretext that the company had not removed derogatory material about Prophet Mohammad. Pakistani authorities are known for taking such actions: exactly two years ago in May 2010,...

Pakistani Chambers Prompt Economic Reform Agendas

“All taxable income must be taxed and it should be theme for the reforms for Budget 2012/2013 in order to revitalize the economy.” “The economic crisis is the biggest challenge and further weakness would lead to the point of no return.” – Dr. Farooq Sattar, parliamentary l...

Delivering Dignity in the Arab World through Political and Economic Reform

In the past year since the uprisings in the Arab world, there has been no shortage of debate on the political future of Arab countries. Yet we are all still grappling -- in Washington as in the affected countries -- with the economic dimensions of this upheaval and their implications for political...

A Chinese Professor’s Take on China’s Economic and Social Progress

CIPE recently had the honor of inviting Professor Mao Yushi, the winner of the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty awarded by the CATO institute, to share his valuable insight on the current events in China. Professor Mao is the founder of Beijing Unirule Institute of Economics and is one o...

Friday Wrap-Up: Voices of Youth, Corporate Citizenship, and a Tenuous Balance in Liberia

This week on the blog: Global Program Assistant Molly Brister introduces the winners of CIPE's Fourth Annual Youth Essay Contest. Global Program Officer Anna Nadgrodkiewicz talks about the real meaning of corporate citizenship and how it differs from corporate social responsibility (CSR). Afric...

Liberia: A Tenuous Balance

When you land at the Roberts International Airport in Monrovia, Liberia, two things immediately catch your attention: the national flag and the sizeable fleet of United Nations helicopters, planes, and armored vehicles. The stars and stripes of the Liberian flag speak to the country's unique origi...

Rethinking Corporate Citizenship

Corporate citizenship, or corporate social responsibility (CSR), is a frequently contested issue. For one, no universally agreed upon definition of it exists, so many debates focus on what the term actually means. But more fundamentally, differences in what corporate citizenship should entail stem...