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Promoting Youth Entrepreneurship in Pakistan

“The Young Entrepreneurs’ Forum is committed to addressing the prevalence of barriers that prevent aspiring entrepreneurship from taking the first step towards an entrepreneurial career” – Shaban Khalid, Chairman, YEF. Promoting entrepreneurship is an important priority for Paki...

A Revolution in Higher Education and Entrepreneurship

The OECD has been working extensively on education; its top of the line agenda is to achieve quality education system in OECD countries.  The center of a quality education system is innovation and knowledge management, which can help to foster economic growth, provided entrepreneurship and researc...

Lviv: Between East and West

One of the nominees for best foreign-language film at this year's Academy Awards was the movie "In Darkness" set in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv during World War II. The film is a fictionalized account of how a group of Jews survived in the sewers of Lviv during the Nazi's World War II occup...

Building Institutions for Economic Growth

It is widely recognized that encouraging long-term economic growth requires competition, innovation, and the spread of new technologies. But these, in turn, require sound underlying institutions, the rule of law, and a state committed to the efficient provision of public goods. In the latest Econom...

Egypt’s Food Subsidies and the IMF

This week, the IMF is back in Egypt to meet with government leaders to discuss a proposed $3.2 billion loan to the country’s transitional government. So far, the package has yet to garner support from either the Muslim Brotherhood or leading Salafist party Al-Nour, both of whom are waiting to...

Advancing Global Human Development

Last week Georgetown University celebrated the launch of an innovative new graduate program: Master of Arts in Global Human Development, beginning in 2012 with the first degrees to be awarded in 2014. The program aims to deepen the understanding of the challenges of development and provide student...

Kaya Natin ‘To—Yes We Can (And Yes We Did!)

On Friday March 30, more than 200 local and central government officials, NGOs, academics and donor representatives met in Manila for the Public Governance Forum of the Institute for Solidarity in Asia (ISA). This CIPE-sponsored event highlighted the remarkable accomplishments in public governance m...

Lessons from Goldman Sachs

Two weeks ago Greg Smith's public resignation from Goldman Sachs via an op-ed in the New York Times went viral, sparking controversy over how Goldman Sachs does business. In the op-ed, Smith named a toxic business environment as the primary reason for his departure. Whether deserved or not, Smith'...

Thai Banks Join Anti-Corruption Effort

On March 27, nine commercial banks jointly signed the Anti-Corruption Declaration of the Thai Institute of Directors (IOD). This Declaration lays out tangible and specific steps that a company must take to combat corruption on the part of its employees, managers and vendors, and is the unifying do...
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