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Steps to Make International Trade More Efficient

Customers everywhere are complaining about empty shelves, while retailers explain that supply chains are tangled or broken. Yet there are ways that government and private sector could work together to improve the situation. For example, by making cross border trade simpler by reducing the paperwork ...

Fasika Hone: A Success Story from Ethiopia

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

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

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

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...

Spotlight: OECD’s COVID-19 Recovery Dashboard

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...

Facilitating Online Meetings and Events: Key Considerations for Local Private Sector Organizations

Online meetings and events offer a unique opportunity for business membership organizations (BMOs) and other civil society organizations (CSOs) to reach wider audiences than ever before while significantly reducing expenses and time, for both attendees and organizers. The COVID-19 pandemic forced co...

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

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?

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...

Tourism as a Mechanism for Economic Transformation in Post-conflict Colombian Regions

CIPE and its partner Jaime Arteaga & Associates (JA&A) manage the Observatory of Private Investment in the Zones Most Affected by the Conflict, a collection of economic indicators that measure economic activity in post-conflict regions of Colombia covered by the national government’s p...