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Neighbors with Open Arms: Moldovan Society Mobilizes to Support Ukrainians

On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a “special military operation” in the Donbas and Luhansk regions of Ukraine. These actions quickly turned into an all-out invasion of Ukraine by land, air, and sea. In the face of war, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, mostly women and...

CIPE Supports the Launch of a Women’s Business Agenda in Papua New Guinea

The Center for International Private Enterprise is working with women around the world to share best practices for women’s business advocacy and economic empowerment. Recently, CIPE partnered with the Papua New Guinea Business Advocacy Network (PNG BAN) to host a panel discussion about the launch ...

Financial Institutions Must Pick a Side in the Global Efforts to Combat Transnational Corruption

The controversy about how far global financial institutions should go to prevent grand scale fraud, corruption, and money laundering — especially when it involves public officers or high net worth clients — can be addressed in the coming weeks during a trial in the British Court system. ...

Corali: CIPE’s New Women’s Business Resource Center in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala

Guatemala has one of the widest gender equity gaps in the world. It is ranked number 122 out of 156 countries in the 2021 Global Gender Gap Report by the World Economic Forum. In addition to the gender gap in economic participation, entrepreneurship, and employment, the women who become active e...

Putting the Trade Pieces Together in Africa

I have always imagined Africa as a quilt made up of different borders. Straight and squiggly lines sown together, a legacy of colonialism. I think about this both in a historical and theoretical sense. My quilt analogy is apt because with trade, Africa is currently putting together the pieces that w...

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CIPE Unveils New Webinar Series: Research Unbound

The Policy & Program Learning team is excited to announce our new webinar series, Research Unbound. In 2021, CIPE launched a new applied research initiative to engage business leaders in emerging democracies with actionable knowledge on policy solutions for democratic free-market systems. ...

WAGE Launches Gender and Inclusion Analysis for Moldova

This piece was first posted on the WAGE blog: Over the past year, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) and the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) have conducted research and analysis focused on identifying the multifaceted social, political, economic, a...

CIPE Learning Expo Highlights Best Practices

CIPE lives out its values of learning and innovation externally and internally. For employees, CIPE recently held its first annual Learning Expo on the theme of “Tipping the Scales: Positioning Democratic and Economic Reforms for Impact.” The January 28 expo combined a panel discussion, ...

CIPE in Mexico: Active Projects and What the Future Holds

CIPE is paving the way for a stronger democracy in Mexico through innovative programming and private sector-oriented solutions. Mexico has been an important area for CIPE programming, both as the second-largest economy in Latin America, and a critical southern partner to the U.S. and Canada. CIPE be...

An Economic Opportunity in Nigeria

Women in Nigeria come home from roadside stalls, community markets and other informal work with small baskets of money. In October, I was in West Africa engaged in dialogues about how to help women access credit to buy their own properties. During lunch, a colleague shared an anecdote about how he r...