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Sri Lanka Programs & Partners

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Evidence-based economic policies and transparent public financial management will be central to helping Sri Lanka overcome its current economic crisis. Public engagement is also critical. Easier access to credible information...

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...

CIPE in Cambodia: Progress for People

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Civic Engagement in Cambodia With a clear narrowing of democratic space in Cambodia, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) must work within the structures and regulations of Cambodia’s authoritarian...

Promotion de l’Inclusion Socio-Économique des Femmes Au Sahel

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Ce rapport résume les travaux des groupes de leadership féminins au Sahel après trois mois d’échanges entre plus de 150 femmes leaders, axés sur l’inclusion économique, sociale et politique, ainsi...

Shaping Investment Security Policy: A Guide for Business Associations

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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...

Innovating through Crisis: How Albanian Business and Entrepreneurs have Survived and Thrived Despite COVID-19

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Albania was significantly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and businesses had to adapt to the changes brought about by this crisis. Research so far on the Albanian context has focused...

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

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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...

Corali Project: Empowering Entrepreneurs in Guatemala

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The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) works with the Red Nacional de Grupos Gestores (RNGG) to support women’s economic empowerment in Guatemala, especially in rural communities where women face the most serious challenges. In late 2021, CIPE launched a pilot Women’s Business Resource Center (“WBRC” or “Corali”) in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala that addresses economic gender...

Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation Annual Report 2022

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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...

2022 Policy & Program Learning Highlights

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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...

2022 Sahel Conference Report

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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)...

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

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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...

Oligarchic Ukrainian Capital

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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...

Risk to Value Guide: How Emerging Market Businesses Can Transform New Risks Into Value

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The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) commissioned this Risk to Value Guide to support medium to large-sized businesses in emerging and frontier markets in understanding emerging and new business...

Identifying and Analyzing Corrosive Investments into Ukraine’s Economy as an Element of Hybrid Warfare

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Executive Summary Economic warfare is a special theater in which the aggressor tries to inflict fatal damage on the economy of the victim country, using all available tools as much...

Presentation of the Timbuktu Institute Study “Barriers and Solutions Regarding the Economic Inclusion of Women in the G5 Sahel Countries”

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The socio-economic exclusion of women is one of the major challenges that hinders economic development throughout Africa. Women are more likely to face a host of unique professional barriers that...

Kleptocracy: Its Global Impact on Markets and Democracy

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CIPE and colleagues are sharing a new policy brief that spotlights how the systemic and systematic looting of public funds by kleptocrats undermines the foundations of democratic governance, by draining resources that could...

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Corrosive Capital in the Middle East and North Africa

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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...

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

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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...

Economic Empowerment in LAC

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Introduction The Center for Women’s Economic Empowerment (CWEE) and the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) team at CIPE advance gender equality in emerging markets to build more inclusive, thriving economies and democracies that deliver for all citizens. This briefer outlines CIPE’s approach to promoting women’s economic empowerment (WEE) in Latin America & the Caribbean (LAC)...