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The Impossible Independence of Abkhazia

CIPE’s Frozen Conflicts blog series looks at the current situation in seven breakaway regions of the former Soviet Union, with a particular focus on the economic dimension. To learn more about frozen conflicts and what can be done about them read CIPE’s Economic Reform Feature Service...

Sustainable Development through the Open Government Partnership? Yes, with the Private Sector

When the Open Government Partnership chose the theme of Openness for All: Enabling Sustainable Development for the 2015 Global Summit in Mexico City, it signaled more than a healthy interest in the Sustainable Development Goals recently proclaimed in New York. OGP was expressing the value of openne...

How Can Economic Reforms Contribute to Democratic Renewal?

The 8th Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy, in Seoul, Korea, focused on ways to renew democracy, prevent backsliding, and sustain democratic transitions. In line with this theme, CIPE organized a workshop for participants to share experiences in balancing economic and political reform p...

The Debate Over Term Limits in Bolivia is About More Than President Morales

On February 21, Bolivians will head to the polls to cast a yes or no vote on whether the constitutional two-term limit for presidents and vice presidents should be amended. The outcome will decide whether Bolivia's current president Evo Morales will be permitted to run for office again if he so ...

Keeping the Economy on the Radar, Even in the Hardest Times

In Beirut during Lebanon's civil war, people continued to go to school and attend theater performances. One woman once told me how, to get to her university, she would take a taxi to the line between East and West Beirut, dash to the other side behind overturned trash dumpsters to avoid snipers, a...

Fighting Kleptocracy

Corruption is often thought of as an individual problem where a corrupt official abuses his or her government position for personal gain. But what happens when an entire government, or the ruling class of an entire country, is engaged in corruption? When corruption becomes systematic and instituti...

Sustaining the Momentum in Thailand’s Fight Against Corruption

Corruption has been a major roadblock to a meaningful and sustaining democracy in Thailand. According to CIPE Asia Regional Director John Morrell, "corruption was the stated justification for the military's ousting of an elected government in 2006 and the Supreme Court's sacking of another elected...

Global Entrepreneurship Week Q&A with Karen Kerrigan

Karen Kerrigan is the president & CEO of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council and a board member and former chair of CIPE. For more than twenty years Kerrigan's leadership, advocacy and training work has helped foster U.S. entrepreneurship and global small business growth.She regula...

Learning From Each Other: Empowering Women Through Business Member Organizations

As many previous CIPE blog pieces have pointed out, empowering women entrepreneurs leads to inclusive economic growth around the world. This point was further explored in a recent McKinsey report, The power of parity: How advancing women's equality can add $12 trillion to global growth: "We consi...

Regional Business Network Brings Together Women Entrepreneurs from Across South Asia

Read more about the Women’s Business Network in a five-part blog series published earlier this year. Women across South Asia face myriad challenges when it comes to participating in the economy — especially as business owners. Women’s business organizations can help their members ...