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Champions of Business Innovation in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

CIPE and its partner the Kurdistan Economic Development Organization (KEDO) have recently concluded a yearlong project to improve the job and entrepreneurial skills for seniors of three universities in the Kurdistan region. The project ended with an online Business Pitch Competition (BPC) on Septemb...

Challenge One: Confronting The World’s Unprecedented Humanitarian Crisis

Awards and honors are a pleasant reminder of a job well done. So it makes sense that when David Beasley, the dynamic Executive Director of the World Food Program, learned that the WFP had been awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize he beamed with joy. But his thoughts immediately turned to the COVID-19 ...

Desafíos para la equidad de género en el emprendimiento colombiano

(An English version of this piece is available here) Como parte de la Semana Global del Emprendimiento, el Departamento de América Latina y el Caribe (LAC) del CIPE organizó una conversación virtual con Lina Vélez y Decci Ibarra, ejecutivas de las Cámaras de Comercio de Medellín y Putumayo, pa...

Challenges to Gender Equity in Colombian Entrepreneurship

(A spanish translation of this piece is available here) As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2020, CIPE’s Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) department organized a virtual conversation with Lina Vélez and Decci Ibarra, executives from the Medellin and Putumayo Chambers of Commerce, to discuss t...

Volatile Ethnic Conflict in the Sahel

There is no viable development without peace, and there is no sustainable peace without development. In the Sahel, security has long been at the heart of development challenges and includes a constantly evolving set of stakeholders and complexities. The G5 Sahel countries – Mali, Ma...

Labor Safety Reforms in Georgia: Why CIPE and the Solidarity Center are Joining Forces to Tackle Compliance Challenges

A version of this post is available in Georgian: The Republic of Georgia is expected to see benefits from a package of sweeping reforms to the country’s labor legislation. The new policies will impact businesses across all sectors and regions of the country. The reforms, enacted on September 29, g...

The Value of Multi-Stakeholder Efforts in Preserving Digital Rights during COVID-19

Modern democracy and vibrant markets require an online space where citizens can freely engage with one another socially, economically, and politically. However, the expanded reliance on the internet, particularly since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, has led to a corresponding rise in efforts le...

A Recipe from AmCham Moldova: The ingredients needed for establishing a successful compliance officer community

Adrian Gheorghita is Deputy Director for Advocacy & Business Development, AmCham Moldova AmCham Moldova has a broader responsibility than many membership-based business associations and chambers of commerce. In addition to serving its members, AmCham Moldova also works with the country’s gove...

Have you talked to them? Public-private dialogue and trade facilitation

The Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation team within CIPE is working to help Ecuador strengthen its competitive participation in the global economy. To foster local ownership of potential reform initiatives, GATF held several meetings with public and private sector stakeholders to grasp their insi...

Building Institutions that Make Property Markets Work

Property rights are among the most fundamental principles enshrined in Article 17 of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Yet access to and protection of property rights vary greatly. What is more, in many countries the understanding of property rights remains limited to prop...