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Over the years, CIPE has actively contributed to policy discussions and thought leadership in the democracy and economic communities.
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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...
Cover of the report features a stylized map of the middle east and north Africa regions.

Corrosive Capital in the Middle East and North Africa

Case Studies | CIPE
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY What is Corrosive Capital? Aid and investment that comes primarily from states, or state-affiliated bodies, and penetrates governance gaps in recipient countries, weakening democratic governance within them. It requires local enablers, often in government. Although states have long...

U.S. – Bahrain Free Trade Agreement User’s Guide

Guides & Tools
This User’s Guide is designed to provide information about the U.S.-Bahrain FTA in an accessible format and to highlight the advantages it provides for American and Bahraini companies. The FTA is an agreement between Bahrain and the U.S. on certain obligations that affect trade in goods and se...

An Assessment of Women’s Rights in Corporate Compliance Programs in Turkey

Case Studies
Report by PAR Research and Consultancy Inc. and CIPE on Women’s Rights in Corporate Compliance Programs in Turkey PAR Research and Consultancy Inc. and CIPE have developed a comprehensive report on corporate compliance programs that address women’s rights in Turkey. The report outlines exi...

Refugee Entrepreneurship: The Current Status of Syrian-led SMEs in Turkey

Articles | Doğan Çelik, Nazlı Kazanoğlu
Executive Summary:  Since 2011, the Syrian Civil War has displaced six million Syrians internally and five million externally. Today, 3.6 million of those who fled their country are living in Turkey. With the support of national and international humanitarian aid and development organisations, the ...

New Post-Conflict Trends: A New Resilience Challenge

Articles
The war in Ukraine has had profound political and economic effects across the Middle East and North Africa. In Tunisia, which imported 56% of its wheat from Ukraine and Russia over the last five years, food prices rose 13 percent just in the month of March. Prices of key staples such as grain, meat,...

Public Perception of Economic and Social Reforms in Tunisia

Case Studies | CIPE
In Tunisia, CIPE is engaging civil society to inject fresh thinking into a repetitive and stagnant public debate over economic reform. CIPE adapted the questionnaire it used in Bolivia and Ukraine to the Tunisian context and hired Elka Consulting, a leading Tunisian research firm, to conduct a surve...

Samriddhi – Arthalaya

Case Studies
Organization:  Samriddhi – The Prosperity Foundation Country: Nepal Name of the Practice/Program: Arthalaya: A School of Economics and Entrepreneurship. Start date: January 2009   1. What is the problem addressed by this practice? Owing to predominant socialist thoughts in the political-econ...
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