CIPE Insights - Center for International Private Enterprise

The Coming Transformation of Ukraine

CIPE Insight | Abdulwahab Alkebsi, Kim Eric Bettcher

From Survival to Sustainable Development: Lessons Learned from CIPE’s Private Sector Approach Soon Ukraine will embark upon reconstruction in the aftermath of the full-scale Russian invasion, which has displaced around 10 million people and left the economy in shambles. Recovery costs, includ...

Why War Will Not Slow Reforms in Ukraine: Private Sector Leaders Share Big Plans

CIPE Insight | Ekaterina (Katya) Lysova

Amid continued Russian attacks, Ukraine’s private sector is a driving force behind the country’s war efforts and visions for reconstruction, providing vital services and leadership during these critical moments. Leveraging their expertise and know-how will be key to rebuilding and driving reform...

“We Will Rebuild”: How Ukrainian Businesses are Ensuring Both Survival and Transformation

CIPE Insight | Nataliia Zhuhai, Oksana Oliinykova

On the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, CIPE staff and partners there are more committed than ever to defending democracy, advancing economic freedoms, and transforming their country. CIPE employees never evacuated, choosing to work alongside the longtime business colleagues a...

Why Do We Need Diversity and Inclusion?

CIPE Insight | Maciej Herman (he,him)

Although it is now over 20 years ago I still clearly remember the first study of so-called personality types I was a subject of in my first workplace, and here right after I had graduated from university.Due to the rather high attrition rate at that company, they repeated the study every year. The ...

Us, the Machines, and Democracy

CIPE Insight | Louisa Tomar

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are quickly evolving as the scale of computation power and the volume of data continues to grow. This technology already has major implications for society, business, governance, rule of law and human rights. Globally, norms and standards around AI&...

Meeting the Summit of the Americas Challenges

CIPE Insight | John Zemko

The Summit of the Americas held June 6-10 should spur new dialogue between governments and businesses in the hemisphere on various challenges Many Latin American leaders at the Ninth Summit of the Americas face a stark reality: how to address increasing challenges to democracy in the region. Econom...

What Risks May Lurk: China’s Investments and Lending in Emerging Democracies

CIPE Insight | John Morrell

One need not look far to find news stories today about China’s overseas ambitions. Barely a month passes without another headline announcing yet another China-funded project in yet another country with so many billions of dollars that one can’t help but wonder if the newspaper editors included e...

Whither Democracy? Perspectives from South Asia

CIPE Insight | Aarya Nijat

Aarya Nijat in Conversation with Akash Shrestha, Dr. Ali Riaz, Dr. Nishan De Mel & Dr. Vaqar Ahmed. Expert responses are almost verbatim, edited only for continuity, length and flow. President Biden is convening a virtual Summit for Democracy on December 9-10. This will be the first of two summi...

Make 2022 a Year of Action to Promote Democracy and Opportunity

CIPE Insight | Andrew Wilson

This December, the Biden Administration will convene the first-ever Summit for Democracy. This important gathering, with its three pillars – fighting authoritarianism, battling corruption, and advancing respect for human rights – comes at a critical moment. It will galvanize people who believe ...

Democracies Must Build Trust to Drive COVID-19 Recovery

CIPE Insight | Anna Kompanek

“Trust” means having a confident relationship with the unknown. According to Rachel Botsman, Trust Fellow at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, that includes enabling small and large acts of cooperation that add up to increased economic efficiency. Likewise, it is necessary for people ...

The Link Between Open Economies and Open Societies

CIPE Insight | Kim Eric Bettcher

Editors’s note: This article was first posted on The Foreign Policy Centre website and is part of a larger publication with Westminster Foundation for Democracy. Title: “Global Britain for an open world?” The challenge of defending and advancing democracy around the world is intertwined with ...

Smart Recovery: Digitization and Transparency will Drive Africa’s Private Sector Growth

CIPE Insight | Lola Adekanye, Greg Cohen

While Africa has so far avoided the worst of the health consequences of the coronavirus, relative to other parts of the world, the pandemic has laid bare the underlying market fragility across the continent. The pan-African economy is enduring its first extreme recession in 25 years, pushing per cap...

There Is More to Democracy That Delivers

CIPE Insight | Aarya Nijat

U.S. President Joe Biden will host a virtual democracy summit on December 9-10, 2021. The purpose of the summit is to exercise American leadership towards global democratic renewal by focusing across three principal themes: defending against authoritarianism, fighting corruption, and promoting r...

Building a More Fair and Vibrant Global Economy

CIPE Insight

Efforts to ensure gender equality and inclusion are growing priorities for communities and governments worldwide. Many are looking to CIPE’s Center for Women’s Economic Empowerment (CWEE) and its wide global partner network to help make change. CWEE, which officially celebrates its third anniver...

Defining a New Social Contract: The Role of Business in Democracy

CIPE Insight | Andrew Wilson

Much of the world is increasingly concerned about inequality, climate change, and widespread political dysfunction. Over the past year, problems have been magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic, also prompting new questions about whether the liberal democratic order established after World War II has ru...

How Democracy Can Deliver the Most Effective Use of Power: Four Elements Democracy Support Must Address

CIPE Insight | Andrew Wilson

A wave of brazen actions by authoritarian regimes and others is causing increased alarm and leading to new thinking about the modern use and abuse of power. A military coup is playing out in Myanmar, cutting off its citizens from most of the world. Pro-democracy supporters in Hong Kong are being att...

The Role of Business in Building a Stronger American Democracy

CIPE Insight | Andrew Wilson

Though we have turned our calendars to 2021, the major challenges that faced the United States in 2020 have not yet abated. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated underlying inequities, while a bitterly contested election has laid bare our political divisions. Both took place against the backdrop of ...

Pricing Risk for Opportunistic Investment in Emerging Markets

CIPE Insight | Bill Endsley

Albania, Romania and North Macedonia have a degree of effective governance including the ability for citizens to petition the government and relatively free markets. The primary risk for investors in all of these countries is government regulation. While most of these countries have a favorable taxa...

Building Resilient Economies and Democracies in 2021 and Beyond

CIPE Insight

Building Resilient Economies and Democracies January is typically viewed as a time of transition and renewed hope for the future. For many, that includes a commitment to change and we can expect a lot of it in 2021. The new year starts with the slow rollout of COVID vaccines and intense debate over...

Businesses Must Build Trust for Post-COVID Rebuilding

CIPE Insight | Anna Kompanek

The Organisation for Economic Development and Co-operation (OECD) defines trust as a person’s belief that another person or institution will act consistently with the expectations of positive behavior. Trust in businesses and the economic institutions in which they operate is essential for the bro...