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CIPE Launches First Annual Photo Competition

“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.” – Robert Frank Show us your best story-telling photo Do you like to tell stories through photography? Then show us your best work! The first annual Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) Ph...

Riinvest Institute Celebrates 20 year Anniversary

CIPE's long term partner Riinvest Institute for Development Research is celebrating their 20th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, Riinvest held a conference on May 15 and 16 titled, "Activating the Sources of Economic Growth in Kosovo". The conference brought together an impressive audie...

Are Remittances Really Remiss?

By Otito Greg-Obi It is a popular opinion in the international development community that remittances – money transferred by a foreign worker back to someone in his or her home country – can have a negative effect on economic growth because recipients tend to spend cash flows on day-to-day su...

The New Middle East: An Uncertain Future

By Bahaa Eddin Al Dahoudi, CIPE-Atlas Corps Think Tank LINKS Fellow What future awaits the Middle East? This question remains pivotal following the outbreak of the Arab revolutions four years ago. It keeps popping up as regional developments arise, especially with the decline of democracy and pr...

CIPE Pakistan Releases 2014 Activities Report

The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) has been working in Pakistan for the past eight years encouraging private sector-driven economic reform and increasing the role of the private sector in the country’s democratic process. CIPE’s Pakistan office just released its 2014...

A Way Forward for a Viable Syria

"We hear a lot about Syria— we hear the narrative of the Syrian government, we hear the narrative of ISIS, we hear the narrative of some of the opposition groups, but we don't usually hear from the private sector, about what's going on."   With this introduction, CIPE Regional Director for the ...

Five Leading Women Entrepreneurs in South Asia

This post is Part 2 in a series. Read Part 1 here. In the emerging democracies of South Asia, the majority of women are blocked from full economic and civil participation by a range of both formal and informal obstacles, including laws and regulations, and cultural and societal norms. While there i...

Property Markets, the Rule of Law, and Real Estate Investment

I recently participated in George Washington University's 2015 Global Real Estate Conference in New York. Having been invited to share CIPE's work developing the International Property Markets Scorecard at the International Real Estate Federation's (FIABCI-USA) annual meeting, which dove-tailed w...
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