Blog - Center for International Private Enterprise

Democracy that Delivers #303: Emerging Leaders in Policy and Program Learning

01.12.2022 |

A quartet of guests join host Ken Jaques to discuss their work at CIPE. They include Autumn Moore and Zoe Watkins from the Communications department, and Adam Goldstein and Mikra Krasniqi from the Policy and Program Learning department. This is the first episode in a series that will f...

Democracy That Delivers #296: Global Entrepreneurship Week – Encouraging Innovation among Students in Papua New Guinea, with Pacific Adventist University

11.16.2021 |

Dr. Khin Mg Kyi, Dean of the School of Business at Pacific Adventist University, joins hosts Ken Jaques and Kim Bettcher for the Democracy that Delivers podcast Global Entrepreneurship Week mini-series final episode. They discuss ways to encourage young people to start their own businesses ...

Democracy That Delivers #295: Global Entrepreneurship Week – Encouraging Innovation among Students in Papua New Guinea, with IBSUniversity

11.11.2021 |

Steve Kimbu, Senior Lecturer at IBSUniversity in Papua New Guinea, joins the Democracy that Delivers podcast host Ken Jaques and CIPE Policy and Program Learning Director Kim Bettcher for the first of a two-part mini-series in celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week. Kimbu teaches ways to enco...

Philippines’ TVET System: Raising Solutions Through Multistakeholder Perspectives

11.04.2021

With the drastic shift in the labor market during the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for technological innovation to continue business operations in many industries worldwide is increasing. As new technology disrupts the workforce, new skills are necessary to keep up with these developments. Technic...

Advocating For a Better Economic Environment for Refugees

09.27.2021

Refugee youth in Kakuma Refugee camp embody the endurance of the human spirit. A study carried out by the International Financial Corporation (IFC) in 2018 took a unique look at Kakuma Refugee Camp and its hosting environment from a market point of view, and measured its cumulative annual economic ...

How COVID is Impacting Business Continuity Plans in East Africa

09.24.2021

East African SMEs’ Post-COVID Recovery: Exploring the Influence of Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) and the Role of Governments and Stakeholders East Africa is a younger region, with 80% of the population of 177 million people under the age of 35. Certain sectors in the region have demonstrate...

Getting to Know CIPE’s Paid Interns

09.05.2021

CIPE’s Internship Program provides university students and recent graduates the opportunity to get involved in international development. The program, usually offered each semester, had a brief hiatus in 2020 due to the pandemic but has since been revamped and brought back. To make the Interns...

CIPE Launches Youth Leadership Program

05.19.2021

More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the struggle is far from over. That’s especially true in places that lack the resources and capacity to properly address the crisis. As the planet is rolling out vaccines, those without access may fall into extreme poverty, which is expected to reach 15...

Democracy That Delivers #189 – Syeed Ahamed on Youth Leadership Development in Bangladesh

02.20.2020 |

Syeed Ahamed is a public policy analyst and CEO of the public policy think-tank— Institute of Informatics and Development (IID) that aims to make policy public. Last year, CIPE began the first of a multi-phase program with IID. In the first phase, CIPE and IID selected 101 young people through ...

Democracy That Delivers #188: Ilhom Aliev on Entrepreneurship and Doing Business in Tajikistan

02.11.2020 |

Read Ilhom’s recent paper on “The Digital Generation and Startups in Tajikistan.” Tajikistan, a country of approximately 9 million, is the poorest of the post-Soviet states. Remittances from labor migrants – over 1 million of whom travel to Russia each year for work – make u...