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Safety First: Secure Communications and Storage Tools for Reducing Risks

What makes CIPE’s programs stand out is the caliber of our partners. From developing the first ever local business agendas in Ukraine, sparking economic policy debates for the first time in Nepal, to leading the private sector cooperate with local governments and security forces to combat ins...

The Tunisian Business Community: Still Working to Keep Tunisia’s Democracy on Track

By Ali Ayadi, Pam Beecroft, and Brenna Curti In 2015, Tunisia’s business community, government and civil society worked together to overcome a series of political and security crises that almost derailed their grand democracy experiment, and won a Nobel Prize for their efforts. Now it is the ...

Debate on Taxation in Pakistan: Reforms Move to the Next Level

Pakistan’s overall tax-to-GDP ratio has been hovering around 10 per cent for the past decade, which is approximately five per cent lower than the average of comparable economies. Despite a large tax base available in all provinces, they collectively contribute only seven per cent in overall r...

Empowering Women: Good for Business

Embed from Getty Images When I was born in Taiwan, my grandma commented “such a shame that she is not a boy!” A preference for boys was prevalent at that time—and to some extent continues today. My uncle and aunt gave up on producing a boy only after ending up with five daughters. ...

Supporting a Technology-Enabled Advocacy Effort for Nigerian Women

One of the exciting initiatives I’m leading here at CIPE is to support our partners become better equipped with low-cost online or mobile tools that could improve their operations or programs. Our network of partners do tremendous work – whether that’s developing business and leaders...

CIPE Arabia: Expert Interview with Dr. Ahmed Fikry Abdel Wahab

This post originally appeared at CIPE-Arabia in Arabic. In a brief interview with CIPE-Arabia, Dr. Ahmed Fikry Abdel Wahab shared some of his thoughts on the pervasive informal sector in Egypt. His concerns center on the potentially negative consequences a large informal sector has on competitiv...

Ukrainian Business Community Comes Together to Develop Local Business Agendas

By Bogdana Aleksandrova and Anastasiya Baklan For the first time in Ukraine’s modern history regional business associations, in cooperation with Chambers of Commerce and Industry and think tanks, are developing and promoting local business agendas. Historically Ukrainian business association...

Russia’s Rent-Seeking Downward Spiral

It is clear that if we do not start taking action today, including by carrying out structural reforms, we could end up going into a lengthy period of economic stagnation tomorrow. Our economy is still based primarily on natural resources rather than on manufacturing. Our economic system has changed ...

Global Enterprise Registration: A Window on Starting a Business

In many countries the procedures to register a business can be confusing, costly, and discouraging. Although the Doing Business index has recorded increased efficiencies over the years, registering a business can still be a daunting process, especially for smaller firms and firms located outside...

Remembering Ronald Coase’s Legacy: Remarks by Oliver Williamson

As the Economist once chided, “the economics profession was slow to recognize Ronald Coase’s genius. He first expounded his thinking about the firm in a lecture in Dundee in 1932, when he was just 21 years old. Nobody much listened. He published ‘The Nature of the Firm’ five...