Resources - Center for International Private Enterprise

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2008 Annual Report

01.31.2009 | Annual Reports

After 25 years of strengthening democracy through market-oriented reform, this report celebrates CIPE’s partnership approach that has been the foundation for its success. Each regional section features an established CIPE partner and looks to the future of reform by profiling an emerging p...

CIPE Guide to Program Development

01.01.2009 | Guides & Tools | Kim E. Bettcher

The CIPE Guide to Program Development introduces techniques and principles that are essential to the development of robust reform agendas. This guide explains how CIPE assists private sector citizens in designing and implementing their own reforms tailored to their country’s situation. Helping bui...

From Sustainable Companies to Sustainable Economies: Corporate Governance as a Transformational Development Tool

10.01.2008 | Articles | Aleksandra Shkolnikov, Andrew Wilson

For democracy to deliver, reform efforts must focus on improving economic institutions as well as political structures. Many of the fragile democracies exhibit governments that are seldom accountable to their citizens beyond elections. In such countries, day-to-day decision-making processes remain o...

Corporate Governance for Emerging Markets

08.01.2008 | Guides & Tools

This toolkit introduces key concepts in corporate governance, provides a framework for applying corporate governance principles to emerging markets situations, and outlines the four-step strategy developed by the Center for International Private Enterprise for corporate governance reform. For inform...

The Corporate Governance Guide for Family-Owned Companies

02.03.2008 | Guides & Tools

Family-owned companies are characterized as organizations in which the shareholders belong to the same family and participate substantially in the management, direction, and operation of the company. It is widely recognized that each family has its own unique unwritten rules, values, histories, and ...

Helping Build Democracy that Delivers

11.15.2007 | Guides & Tools | Kim E. Bettcher

The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) is unique among groups that support democratization in that it mobilizes the private sector—business communities, economic think tanks, business journalists—for reform by making “the business case for democracy.” By understanding the loc...

How to Advocate Effectively: Guidebook for Business Associations

10.10.2007 | Guides & Tools

While CIPE actively helps business organizations around the world to develop and implement their advocacy programs, it’s important for program managers to fully understand how and why advocacy efforts must adapt to the internal environment in a given country – whether it is political upheaval or...

Legislative Advisory Services Toolkit

10.01.2007 | Guides & Tools

A legislative advisory service analyzes proposed legislation and provides simple cost/beneﬁt assessments of its impact. This service provides a mechanism for private sector organizations to express their views on economic issues and take part in national economic policymaking. It also helps legisl...

Strategies for Policy Reform: Experiences from Around the World

06.01.2007 | Case Studies | Kim E. Bettcher, Teodora Mihaylova, Julie Johnson

This book presents case studies of effective, innovative reform programs designed and implemented by business associations, think tanks, and other independent organizations in partnership with the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE). Each chapter illustrates an important theme in the ...

National Business Agenda Guidebook

06.01.2006 | Guides & Tools

A national business agenda (NBA) is a vital tool for the business community to encourage investment and stimulate business activity and economic growth. Developing an agenda mobilizes the business community to use its skills to effect public policy reform by setting legislative and regulatory priori...

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