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The Power of Constituency

In his opening remarks for CIPE’s event, Leveraging the Private Sector to Improve the Economic Enabling Environment for Women, Executive Director Andrew Wilson suggested that power is not given, but taken. Wilson went on to describe four phases of empowerment, including: taking control/power of y...

Two Days in the Life of CIPE

On January 9-10, CIPE opened its doors to four Johns Hopkins students to give them a taste of what it’s like to have a career in democracy assistance and private sector development. Organized by the Johns Hopkins Life Design Lab, this “Host a Jay at Work” event gave undergraduate students an ...

Red Tape, Red Carpets and a Proverbial Fishing Lesson: Egypt’s Challenging Quest to Achieve FDI-Driven Growth

Red tape, red carpets and a proverbial fishing lesson: Egypt’s challenging quest to achieve FDI-driven growth Since Egypt floated their currency and loosened capital controls in 2016, demand for the nation’s high-yield portfolio investments has surged to the point that some debt traders h...

CIPE partners with State ECA on Action Planning to Enable Women in the Economy

Nineteen different countries, nineteen different stories, nineteen women all focused on improving the enabling environment for women in their economies —CIPE was honored to welcome the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) Delegation from the U.S. Department of State for an actio...

Cut from the Same Cloth: Entrepreneurship in Guatemala

The jacket had lived an entire existence before I even laid my eyes on it. Threads of deep burgundy, coral and gold were transformed by hand into an elegant fabric in the western highlands of Guatemala. It was cut and sewn, then cut and sewn again, into a magnificent jacket. A few weeks later,...

Nepal: Shifting Gear from South to North

Nepal, sandwiched between China and India, plays a limited role in the global arena, however for China and India, who are two of the largest players in world politics and economy, the small Himalayan nation holds strong strategic interest. India, which surrounds Nepal on three sides, has always asse...

The SME Governance Guidebook

What would lead Slim Othmani, CEO of a mid-size, family-owned food manufacturing firm in Algeria, to adopt corporate governance practices? What would it mean for his company’s growth, investor relations, and family relations? For Othmani, his motivations to adopt new practices were about managing ...

Synergizing Sub-National Stakeholders on Governance and Accountability – Lessons from Pakistan

With a population of over 200 million people, Pakistan is ranked as 6th largest country in the world. Since its independence from British-India in 1947, Pakistan remained under military government rule for three decades. Interestingly, military rulers initiated empowerment at the sub-national level ...

Solving Global Youth Unemployment – My experience since writing the CIPE Essay

At a recent YALI Mandela Fellowship Expo where Program Officer Ryan Musser was representing CIPE, he met a Mandela fellow who won a CIPE essay contest several years ago on Economically-Sustainable Development, in which he wrote about economic opportunity for youth. His name was Babatunde Oladosu, an...

All Eyes on Sudan’s Transition to a Democracy

With the world watching, Sudan is shifting from a military to civilian government. Sudan’s former dictator, Omar al-Bashir, had ruled for 30 years when his own military removed him from power last April amidst a string of popular protests. A transitional military council ruled the country until A...