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Sahel Conference Report

Articles

English The stakeholders of the Sahel Economic Coalition Initiative met in Nouakchott, Mauritania between September 13 to 16, 2021 to analyze the effects of the pandemic on the private sector, as well as the response plans of each G5 Sahel country. This event was a part of a process of constructive ...

Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in Guatemala

Case Studies | CIPE

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 2021, CIPE launched a pilot Women’s Business Resourc...

Labor Legislation Guidebook for Georgian Employers

Guides & Tools | CIPE

The Labor Legislation Guidebook for Georgian Employers provides an overview for Georgian employers on the new labor legislation passed by the Georgian Parliament in 2020. The brochure provides an overview of important updates related to the Labor Code, including changes to general provisions, bylaws...

Do Free Trade Zones Stimulate Entrepreneurship? New Evidence from China

Case Studies | CIPE

In a paper produced with support from the Center for International Private Enterprise, the authors look at the effects of China’s 2017 free trade zone (FTZ) program. They write: “we adopt the difference-in-difference techniques to evaluate the effectiveness of FTZ policies in encouraging ent...

Fundamentals of Occupational Safety and Health – Introduction and Implementation of Management System

Guides & Tools | CIPE

The “Fundamentals of Occupational Safety and Health for Georgian Employers” guidebook outlines and explains five steps that employers should take in order to establish and implement an efficient labor safety management system. The guide is based on International Standardization Organization, Int...

Belt and Road Initiative Animation

Guides & Tools |

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is China’s wide-reaching global development infrastructure strategy, connecting China internationally through trade and infrastructure projects. While BRI projects can provide critical investment in infrastructure, they may pose significant risks, such as opaque...

Perceptions of Corruption Before and After the Pandemic — A Survey of Households in Bangladesh

Surveys

Introduction Bangladesh has a score of 26 on Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index. This is an improvement from the country’s ranking in the early 2000s, but is far from ideal. Today, corruption is a reality and affects private sector’s prospects for growth and contribution ...

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,...

Fundación Libertad: White Paper on the Private Sector in Argentina

Articles

Introduction: Argentine democracy is in a worrying state, and not only because of the weak respect that the current government shows regarding democratic and republican principles, division of powers, regard for justice and freedom of the press. These problems are complex and politics by itself is t...

Centro de Estudios de la Realidad Económica y Social (CERES): Money in a Digital Economy

Articles

There is a tendency to believe that the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated a process that was already underway in many parts of the world: the transition to an economy that requires fewer and fewer cash transactions, a cashless economy. Although this is thought to have occurred primarily because of c...