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Women Entrepreneurs Changing the Game in South Asia #IWD2016

Here at CIPE, we are celebrating International Women’s Day by highlighting the achievements of the South Asia Regional Women’s Network, an informal group of 31 inspiring and empowered women from Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. Members of the network are business leade...

Advocates for Change: The Role of Women Business Leaders in Achieving Gender Equality

International Women’s Day is an important opportunity to shine a light on the success stories of women around the world—and their perseverance to achieve equality despite legal, political, economic, and social discrimination. Entrenched gender discrimination continues to prevent women from ...

Democracy that Delivers Podcast #5: Former DOJ Prosecutor Charles Duross on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

In this week’s Democracy That Delivers podcast, former U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutor Charles Duross discusses how he moved from “guns, drugs, and thugs” cases to leading the DOJ team that enforces the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Duross, now a global anti-co...

Disruptive Development: Harnessing the Power of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

Many say that we are in the midst of a Fourth Industrial Revolution, characterized by rapid and transformative technological advancement on a scale the world has never seen before. This Fourth Industrial Revolution has already radically and fundamentally altered the way we live, work, and interac...

Surviving in Economic Crisis: A Nigerian Woman Entrepreneur’s Story

“As a business owner, you either choose to survive or die. And surviving in this state of economic crisis in Nigeria requires creative thinking.” On my recent trip to Lagos, Nigeria, I spoke with Patricia (Pat) Agbakwu -Ajegwu, the owner of Xklusive Patsie and the former president of t...

Promoting Advocacy with Technology

By Lauren Dawes, Panoply Digital This blog post was originally published by Panoply Digital, who are helping CIPE partners around the world improve their digital capabilities. In a previous blog, Michael wrote about the work we have been doing with the Center for International Private Enterprise (...

Russia’s Plan for Economic Recovery: Demolish Small Businesses

With shocking disregard for property rights, due process and the rule of law, overnight on February 9 the Moscow city government set out around city to raze hundreds of small businesses. The demolition took place in spite of the fact that many of these businesses had the proper paperwork to operat...

An Agenda to “Do Development Differently”

Successful implementation of the post-2015 development agenda requires some important behavior changes and a commitment to “do development differently” by the various stakeholders pledging to reach this ambitious set of goals. What does that involve exactly? In this month’s Econom...

Gagauzia: Another Obstacle on Moldova’s Path to Europe?

In 2014, shortly before the Republic of Moldova signed its EU Association Agreement, nearly 99 percent of the electorate in the little-known, autonomous region of Gagauzia in southern Moldova voted in a referendum to reject closer links with Europe in favor of joining the Russian-led Eurasian Econo...

Leveraging the Youth Bulge to Transform the Arab World

Last Thursday marked five years since Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was ousted from power in what has come to be known as the Jasmine Revolution. A well-waged campaign of civil resistance, provoked by the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, ultimately led to the upending of Ben Ali...