Resources - Center for International Private Enterprise

Creating a Better Business Environment in Nigeria

Case Studies

Introduction Since 2008, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) in Nigeria has focused on fostering a better business environment through regional public private dialogue initiatives in the North Central...

CIPE Guide to Governance Reform

Guides & Tools

The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) has developed proven techniques for advancing democratic and market reforms, which private sector groups around the world have used to improve the business...

Improving the Environment for Entrepreneurship in Nepal

Case Studies

Introduction In 2006, Nepal emerged from a decade long insurgency and centuries-old monarchical governance. The country was undergoing a transition to democracy, characterized by elections and the adoption of a...

Developing Entrepreneurial Talent and Leadership Among Youth in Peru

Case Studies

Introduction Since the early 2000s Peru has seen a period of sustained economic growth and poverty reduction, as well as three successive transitions of power via democratic elections. Despite this,...

Fostering a Culture of Public Private Dialogue in Moldova

Case Studies

Introduction The National Business Agenda (NBA) network is the leading voice of private business and advocate for the implementation of pro-growth economic policy in Moldova. Through the adoption of the...

Anti-Corruption Compliance: A Guide to Mid-Sized Companies in Emerging Markets

Guides & Tools

Anti-Corruption Compliance: A Guide for Mid-Sized Companies in Emerging Markets, is meant to help local companies around the world think about anti-corruption compliance as a strategic investment and take concrete...

Creating the Environment for Entrepreneurial Success

Guides & Tools

Creating the Environment for Entrepreneurial Success is a special report that highlights the crucial environmental dimension of entrepreneurship ecosystems. Improving the conditions for entrepreneurship and leveling the playing field goes...

Approaches to Collective Action: How businesses together can lead the fight against corruption

Articles

When private businesses are interested in reducing corruption, they can be mobilized to take concrete steps against it. This article introduces available tools for collective action – a strategic approach...

REFORM Toolkit: Expanding Access to Information

Guides & Tools

Making the right information available to the right people helps them to lead change. This toolkit identifies core objectives and approaches in the field of access to information to guide...

Building Entrepreneurship Ecosystems

Articles

Entrepreneurship is not only among the most fundamental human endeavors, but it is also at the core of vibrant market economies around the world. This article addresses the significance of...

Looking Toward the Future: The Business Case for Corporate Governance

Articles

The essence of inclusive market economies is the institutional framework where private entrepreneurs have the opportunities to create and build wealth, to maximize their value to society, and to grow...

Guide to Youth Entrepreneurship Programs

Guides & Tools

This guidebook is a resource for chambers of commerce, associations, and other business-oriented groups seeking to address some of the obstacles that young people face as they attempt to enter...

Improving Public Governance: Closing the Implementation Gap between Law and Practice

Articles

Implementation gap is the difference between laws on the books and how they are carried out in practice. Many countries have legal frameworks that in principle should allow them to...

How to Sustain Burma’s Path Towards Democracy: The Need for Institutional Reform

Articles

Introduction In his speech at the July United States- Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Business Forum in Siem Reap, Cambodia, Burma President U Thein Sein explained that Burma “has...

The Philippine Experience in Transition

Articles

Article at a glance: • The experience of the Philippines can be instructive to countries currently undergoing their own democratic transitions. • Citizenship in a democracy requires responsibility. Rights and...

Corporate Citizenship Manual for Development Finance Institutions

Guides & Tools

DFIs as Responsible Corporate Citizens Sustainability, a recent trend in international development, has redefined how companies and financial institutions around the world do business. Whereas before, business actions were largely...

Property Rights, Development, and Democratic Transitions: The Path Ahead

Articles

Since the publication of Hernando de Soto’s landmark book The Mystery of Capital in 2000, the link between property rights and economic development, especially for the world’s poor, has become...

A Resource Handbook for Economic and Business Journalists

Guides & Tools

The media has the responsibility to provide society with objective, accurate, and timely information of economic trends and events, however incomprehensible jargon is regularly used in news reports without an...

The Roles of Economic Think Tanks in Democratic Policymaking & the Keys to Think Tank Success

Articles

Strong, well-informed think tanks strengthen democratic governance in ways that simply can’t be replicated by other advocacy groups. Economic think tanks are indispensable to CIPE, as they explain the benefits...

Building Institutions that Make Property Markets Work

Articles

Understanding of property rights often remains limited to property titles, without deeper appreciation of the underlying and interconnected institutions that make property rights meaningful and allow property markets to function....