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Opportunity for All: How Business Associations Can Empower Persons With Disabilities

Guides & Tools | Morgan Frost, Elena Ratoi

Persons with disabilities seeking to participate fully in the economy are often confronted with unique challenges, such as inaccessible workplaces, lack of access to finance, and limited opportunities for skills-building. The COVID-19 pandemic further exacerbated these barriers, as entrepreneurs and...

Modern Approaches To Establishing Trust in Business: A Study of Japanese Companies Operating in Southeast Asia

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Countries and communities are increasingly turning to the private sector as both a key constituency and a problem solver in addressing complex social and economic challenges, therefore establishing greater trust in business is essential. To inform and inspire, CIPE collaborated with the Tokyo-based ...

Driving Transparency in Cambodia: How Lenders Shape Infrastructure Standards

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Governments in emerging economies are turning to a variety of sources for infrastructure funding and technology. Among the avenues for countries in Asia and the Pacific: multilateral development banks and donor agreements with neighboring countries such as China, Japan, and South Korea. To show how ...

CIPE Association Frontiers Transitioning to Strategic Agendas

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Has your Chamber or Association struggled to turn the strategic plan into action? The key may lie in reengineering it’s board meetings with a strategic focus. In this video, CIPE’s Director of Association Development, Stephen Rosenlund, CAE, IOM, and Association Options President, William Pa...

Corruption Risk Assessment: Humanitarian Aid in Ukraine

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Immense amounts of humanitarian aid continue to flow into war-torn Ukraine and CIPE is working to help gauge and curb associated corruption. Findings by CIPE’s Center for Anti-Corruption and Governance (ACGC) indicate corruption risk levels may be lower than many anticipate, in part due to digit...

Partner Impact in Southeast Asia: Small Grants Report

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CIPE’s extensive network of global partners includes independent economic think tanks and experts in dozens of countries. The well-known Asia Think Tank Network (ATTN) serves as a platform for peer-to-peer learning and collaboration for organizations across Southeast Asia, including work to empowe...

Ethiopian MSMEs and the AfCFTA

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The African Continental Free Trade Agreement ushers in a new era of cross-border commerce for the 54 countries that signed the pact. This policy brief is the first in a country-by-country series examining the opportunity for micro, small and medium-sized businesses. Ethiopia’s vegetables, leat...

Identifying Successful Collective Action Approaches Against Kleptocracy

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This USAID-funded CEPPS/IRI/CIPE report outlines contemporary collective action approaches against kleptocracy. The research rests on key interviews and expert analysis and features 7 country-specific case studies: Armenia, Guatemala, Malaysia, Moldova, Romania, Thailand, and Ukraine. The aim of thi...

2024 Africa Association Survey Findings

Surveys | Ryan Musser

Business membership organizations offer support for local businesses and help foster inclusive growth and economic development. These crucial functions are harder to provide when the organizations are too dependent on a single source of revenue, and that is a problem in Africa, according to survey d...

The Growing Awareness of the Role of SMEs in Anti-Corruption

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For the first time, the largest global gathering of anti-corruption practitioners and activists purposefully examined the role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in combatting corruption, with business representatives sharing their stories. It was another example of the anti-corruption com...

CIPE Europe Year in Review 2023

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This report highlights CIPE Europe’s achievements in 2023, emphasizing the significant strides made since establishing CIPE office in Bratislava, Slovakia, in 2021. Over the past year, CIPE Europe has expanded its reach and impact, executing 29 projects with 29 partners across 16 countries in...

How to Use Policy Framing

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The political or public response to an issue depends heavily on how it is framed. Every decision maker and citizen interprets an issue from their own vantage point, with reference to concepts that are familiar to them. Policy advocates soon discover that to persuade audiences, supplying evidence and...

A How-To Guide to Anti-Corruption Messaging

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Corruption is often argued to be one of the biggest threats to both development and democracy around the world. This helps to explain why anti-corruption campaigns have been a constant feature of both foreign aid programming and civil society activity over the last 30 years. These anti-corruption ca...

Economic Security Survey of Japanese Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Case Studies

Both states and businesses are increasingly concerned about economic security due to the COVID-19 pandemic and coercive economic behavior from authoritarian actors in recent years. To mitigate the impact of these factors, the Japanese government passed the Economic Security Promotion Act (ESPA) in M...

Women Empowerment and Corruption – The Interplay Between Gender, Transparency and Corruption: The Case of Hungary in Comparative Perspective

Case Studies | József Péter Martin

Corruption, defined as the abuse of entrusted power for private gain, is a multifaceted problem with roots both in individual and institutional behavior. In his 2007 paper “Rethinking the Nature and Origins of the Grabbing Hand,” the Swedish Political Science theorist Jan Teorell argued that cor...

Navigating Global Interdependence: Enhancing Economic Resilience in the Transatlantic Space

Case Studies | Abdulwahab Alkebsi, Jeff Lightfoot, John Kay

Authoritarian regimes increasingly use economic coercion to influence democracies. Their shift in tactics responds to the interconnectedness of global markets, which they exploit to advance strategic interests. Economic power is now a weapon that replaces or supplements the military aggression aut...

The Business Case for Digital Rights: Future-Proofing Digital Transformation

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With two-thirds of the world’s population regularly using the internet, we are experiencing an unprecedented shift in how people spend their money and time. Most companies, big or small, are now dependent on the internet for supply chains, connections to customers, and market information. A vibran...

Pacific Island Stakeholders in Digital Transformation

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While there is a general sense of excitement around the opportunity to digitize the Pacific Island’s economies and support startup growth, discussions around the rules and legal frameworks that would govern digital platforms and protect rights are lacking. This report identifies digital transfor...

Impacts of Pay-It-Forward Loans for Women: Papua New Guinea Case Study

Case Studies

This case study delves deep into the origin and development of the PIF Loan initiative. Beginning with its conceptual foundation and the circumstances that led to its inception, the study sheds light on the key objectives and strategies that were employed to bring this initiative to fruition. Throug...

Rapid Response Evaluation in Ecuador

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This report presents the impact evaluation of the Rapid Response Opportunities for Anti-Corruption in Ecuador (RRAP) developed between May and September 2023. It implemented a qualitative assessment of three significant outcomes: mobilization of civil society and the private sector, adoption of refo...