Resources - Center for International Private Enterprise

Beneficial Ownership Transparency — Exploring the Private Sector Use Case

Case Studies | Michael Barron, Tim Law

Beneficial ownership transparency has emerged as one of the most effective tools for exposing corruption, and around the world 121 governments have committed to establishing central registers of beneficial ownership information. But surprisingly little attention has been paid to the role of the priv...

Investing in Latin American Democracy: Impacts of Corrosive and Constructive Capital

Case Studies | Catherine Gibson, Abby Guen, Taryn Seigel, Eric Hontz, Lucy Hale, James Bosworth

Investing in Latin American Democracy: Impact of Corrosive and Constructive Capital summarizes the key findings from five years of investigation into the influx and effects of “corrosive” and “constructive” capital in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Venezuela. The weakened and fragi...

Private Sector Priorities for Ukraine’s Recovery

Case Studies

This report leverages CIPE’s expertise and experience to share private-sector preferences for Ukraine’s post-war recovery, starting with improved governance and transparency. Despite the current challenges, the report finds realistic reasons for hope. Ukraine’s private sector accounted for ...

New Report from WDI: Strategizing a Recipe for Success

Case Studies

This case was written by Amy Gillett and Kristin Babbie Kelterborn, both of the Entrepreneurship Development Center at the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan as part of the CIPE project “Economic Diversification and Access to Finance,” designed to support inclusive and sus...

Good Business Practices with a Gender Focus in Ecuador

Guides & Tools

A Methodological Guide This methodological guide is part of “Good Business Practices with a Gender Focus in Ecuador,” a research project promoted by the Fundacion Haciendo Ecuador with the support of the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) in close collaboration with the Chambers ...

Best Practices Manual — Board of Directors Elections for Women’s Business Associations

Guides & Tools

CIPE and its partner, Asociación Red Empresarias y Emprendedoras para el Desarrollo Sostenible (AREED), have worked together for several years to increase the capacity of women’s business associations across Central America through mentorship, strategic planning, and capacity building workshops. ...

Mapping Report: Formalisation of Cooperatives and Private Sector Organisations

Guides & Tools | Kim Eric Bettcher

Mapping Report — Support to Policy Dialogue for Investment Climate in Somalia Executive Summary As part of a non-key expert assignment under the SPDI project, funded by the European Union, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) undertook a field-based mapping exercise to assess the...

Women’s Economic Empowerment: Making Markets and Democracy More Inclusive and Resilient

Articles | Barbara Langley, John Morrell

Women, Money, & Democracy: Introduction & Context Championed through a bipartisan effort led by former U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Rep. Lois Frankel (D-FL), the Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment Act became law on Janu...

Case Study: Business Agenda for Economic Recovery and Cooperation in Ethiopia 2023

Case Studies

Executive Summary Recent conflicts in Ethiopia have taken a great toll on the social and economic life of the country, and the war in Northern Ethiopia in particular has had a devastating impact on the Ethiopian economy. The war has damaged crucial economic facilities such as airports, roads, bridge...

Shaping Investment Security Policy: A Guide for Business Associations

Guides & Tools | Sarah Bauerle Danzman

Foreword Shaping Investment Security Policy: A Guide for Business Associations Emerging geopolitical tensions and concerns about supply chain, health, and food security have recently resulted in greater state intervention in economic affairs, including regulating investments. Governments have increa...

Asala, The Palestinian Businesswomen’s Association

Case Studies | Stephen Rosenlund, Karim Shaaban, Connie Gonzalez, Marie A. Principe, Gabriella Butler

Women are most acutely impacted by the consequences of conflict and poverty in the Palestinian Territories and are also a significant source of civic leadership and untapped potential for economic development. Since 2014, CIPE’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) division has worked in partnershi...

Promoting Women Leaders Globally in Economic Recovery Project Final Results

Annual Reports

Background on the Promoting Women Leaders Globally in Economic Recovery Project The Center for Women’s Economic Empowerment (CWEE) at CIPE empowers women to overcome economic inequality and lead private sector engagement, entrepreneurial ventures, and partnerships. CWEE strengthens community and g...

The Impact of the War in Northern Ethiopia on Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (MSMEs) and Marginal Economic Actors (MEAs)

Guides & Tools

In late 2022, the CIPE East Africa Regional Office commissioned research on the impact of war in northern Ethiopia on Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises (MSMEs) and Marginal Economic Actors (MEAs) as part of the Empowering Marginal Economic Actors through Policy from the Bottom-Up (EMEA) ...

Private Sector How-To Guides to Assess and Incorporate Gender Equity Practices

Guides & Tools

CIPE partnered with EAFIT University in Medellin, Colombia, to research how private sector companies can integrate gender equity policies and initiatives at the company level. EAFIT University is a member of the Business Alliance for Gender Equity in Antioquia, a public-private initiative launched i...

Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation Annual Report 2022

Annual Reports

CIPE is a joint leader of the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation, which just released its 2022 annual report outlining innovative programs in numerous countries around the globe. The Alliance report outlines how new forms of public-private partnerships are helping to tackle some of the great...

2022 Policy & Program Learning Highlights

Annual Reports | Kim Eric Bettcher, Mikra Krasniqi, Althea Lloyd-White, Adam Goldstein, Tamari Dzotsenidze

The Policy & Program Learning (PPL) team is pursuing answers to crucial questions about the direction of democratic free-market systems and highlighting areas for business leadership in reform. Supporting independent economic voices and democratization opportunities requires knowledge of interna...

Research To Support Women’s Economic Empowerment

Articles | Connie Gonzalez, Sahra Rajani

The Center for Women’s Economic Empowerment (CWEE) at CIPE advances gender equality in emerging markets to build more inclusive, thriving economies and democracies that deliver for all citizens. This brief outlines how CIPE supports women’s economic empowerment (WEE) by partnering with instituti...

2022 Sahel Conference Report

Annual Reports

Sahel Conference Report: Promoting a Private-Public Dialogue for Development, Security and the Fight against Violent Extremism in the G5 Sahel In late 2022, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) organized a regional conference on promoting a public-private dialogue in the Sahel to f...

Investing in Facts: How the Business Community Can Support a Healthy Infosphere

Articles | Marius Dragomir

Independent media around the world are in crisis. Failing market conditions, the loss of advertising revenue to big tech, and autocratic encroachment in the media sector have made it difficult for even the best news outlets to protect their editorial independence and remain financially resilient. Gi...

Oligarchic Ukrainian Capital

Articles

The oligarchic system that has developed in the political and economic spheres of Ukraine represents one of the main obstacles to the socio-economic development of the country. The oligarchy distributes resources in an ineffective manner, without regard for the interests of society; it diminishes co...