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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...

Future of Work Initiative: Focus Areas for Kickstarting Latin American Economies

The #futureofworklac is upon us and CIPE is developing ideas to stimulate Latin America in kickstarting its economies and transitioning to a more digitalized world. CIPE is bringing together our partners – CIEN, CIPPEC, Fedesarrollo, and Mexico Evalúa – to present their Future of Work material ...

A Center for Excellence is strengthening public-private dialog and shaping public policy in Colombia

For some countries it is a given that private sector actors are an equal partner in shaping public policy. However, many countries around the world still struggle to include the business community in their policymaking process. By strengthening public-private dialogue, some countries have made progr...

El futuro del trabajo en América Latina post Covid-19: una nueva iniciativa de CIPE

This blog appears in English at: https://www.cipe.org/blog/2020/10/29/the-future-of-work-in-post-covid-19-latin-america-a-new-cipe-initiative/ Cuando se anunció la primera víctima latinoamericana de Covid-19 el 25 de febrero de 2020, la región contemplaba un futuro del trabajo lejano donde el tel...

The Future of Work in Post-Covid-19 Latin America: A New CIPE Initiative

This blog appears in Spanish at: https://www.cipe.org/blog/2020/10/30/el-futuro-del-trabajo-en-america-latina-post-covid-19-una-nueva-iniciativa-de-cipe/ When the first Latin American victim of Covid-19 was announced on February 25, 2020, the region was contemplating a distant future world of telewo...

Foreign Investment in a Post-COVID-19 World

Driving Economic Growth and Good Governance while Protecting National Security Just as the adverse health effects of COVID-19 will not vanish immediately but will be resolved in stages, so too will the global economy recover in stages, across industries and around the world. As both Western economie...

Unstable Ground: Analyzing Kenya’s Property Markets

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance for countries to build robust domestic institutions that can provide equitable economic and social opportunities. For instance, in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, mass government evictions earlier this year displaced more than 5,000 people, putting the...

Collaborating for Inclusive Prosperity: The Gambia’s National Business Council

The Gambian business community is a leading responder and advocate for public health during the COVID-19 pandemic. In March of 2020, the Gambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) organized a telethon to mobilize businesses across the country to donate funds for COVID relief efforts led by the p...

Revitalizing Private Investment in Colombian Regions Most Affected by Poverty & Violence

CIPE is working with Colombia’s Jaime Arteaga and Associates (JA&A) to monitor the level of investment in Region-Focused Development Programs (PDETs in Spanish). These programs were introduced by the Colombian government in 2017 in the 170 municipalities most affected by violence. Since the 20...

Responding to COVID-19 in Latin America: Think Tanks Are Leading Transparency and Recovery

The perennial challenges in Latin America have only intensified since the onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic. Analyses of the weak democratic institutions, corruption in public health and social security systems, and vulnerability of labor markets with high levels of informality, detail the impac...