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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...

Economic Inclusion: Leveraging Markets and Entrepreneurship to Extend Opportunity

Burgeoning youth populations across the developing world emphasize the importance of achieving sustainable economic growth and providing widespread employment opportunities. Economic inclusion refers to equality of opportunity for all members of society to participate in the economic life of their c...

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...

What’s Stopping Pakistan from Reaping its Demographic Dividend?

“In the absence of adequate job creation by the public or private sectors, it is more important to enhance financial inclusion, which can help create greater opportunities for self-employment instead of salaried employment.” Tameer Microfinance Bank CEO Nadeem Hussain Pakistan is one of...

Exploring the Connections Between Women’s Economic Empowerment and Democracy

This post is Part 1 in a series. Read Part 2 here. CIPE’s focus both on how economic growth strengthens democracy, and on how sound democratic institutions are needed to make an economy function smoothly, directly bears on women’s political and economic empowerment in South Asia. In Ma...

Working Together for the Future of Serbia’s Youth

By Milos Djuricanin, Program Manager at Serbian Association of Managers. Duracanin was a 2014 ChamberLINKS participant. "It is clear that youth unemployment is one of the biggest problems of our society. If we want to successfully solve the problem of unemployment, we have to listen more to the...

Can Women Entrepreneurs Help Serbia Overcome Recession?

Recently I visited Serbia to attend events for a women's mentorship program led by our partner, the Association of Business Women in Serbia (ABW). I was excited to speak with the local women entrepreneurs, because I had read literature on how women in business face serious barriers in Serbia des...

Pakistan’s Cyber Crime Bill Has Free Speech Advocates and Business Community Worried

“The proposed Prevention of Electronic Crime Act 2015, in my opinion, is even worse than the one we advocated against during the Musharraf era. The fact that the Ministry of IT&T felt the need to operate in complete secrecy over the past year clearly indicates the mindset with which thi...

Press Freedom Still on the Decline

By Dahye Kim On May 3, the United Nations General Assembly honors the fundamental principles of press freedom with World Press Freedom Day. On this day Freedom House also released Freedom of the Press 2015, the latest edition of its annual report published since 1980 to evaluate press freedom...

Maximum Wage in Egypt: Who Pays the Bill?

Hiba Safi is a CIPE-Atlas Corps Think Tank LINKS Fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy. This post originally appeared on the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy blog Over the course of the past several months, a revolt has taken place in Egypt's banking sector. Seeking bette...