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Three Reasons to be Optimistic About Trade in Latin America

CIPE Insight | José Raúl Perales

José Raúl Perales, Deputy Director at the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation explains the trends he sees in the region’s trade facilitation landscape. While speaking at a recent hemispheric business summit in Washington DC, a group of executives from several Latin American countries asked me...

The Urgency of Transparency

CIPE Insight | Karim Shaaban, Robert C. Harris

Editor’s Note: CIPE and partners around the globe are among those urging governments to ensure COVID-19 relief and response activities are transparent and corruption-free, so that citizens remain informed and receive the most benefit possible. The Lebanese Transparency Association has started ...

Innovation is a Necessity for Survival

CIPE Insight | Karim Shaaban

“Innovate or die” was coined by the father of business management, Peter Drucker. This concept cannot be truer and more urgent than now under the Coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic crisis. Innovation is defined as an idea, method, process, product, or practical solution to meet a need. It im...

Property Rights and Property Markets: Key Ingredients of Inclusive Development

CIPE Insight | Eliza Pugh, Anna Kompanek

“Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.” – Article 17, Universal Declaration of Human Rights The Universal Declaration of Human Rights lays out fundamental rights for all, including the right to ...

Businesses Must Build Trust for Post-COVID Rebuilding

CIPE Insight | Anna Kompanek

The Organisation for Economic Development and Co-operation (OECD) defines trust as a person’s belief that another person or institution will act consistently with the expectations of positive behavior. Trust in businesses and the economic institutions in which they operate is essential for the bro...

Building Resilient Economies and Democracies in 2021 and Beyond

CIPE Insight

Building Resilient Economies and Democracies January is typically viewed as a time of transition and renewed hope for the future. For many, that includes a commitment to change and we can expect a lot of it in 2021. The new year starts with the slow rollout of COVID vaccines and intense debate over...

Pricing Risk for Opportunistic Investment in Emerging Markets

CIPE Insight | Bill Endsley

Albania, Romania and North Macedonia have a degree of effective governance including the ability for citizens to petition the government and relatively free markets. The primary risk for investors in all of these countries is government regulation. While most of these countries have a favorable taxa...

The Role of Business in Building a Stronger American Democracy

CIPE Insight | Andrew Wilson

Though we have turned our calendars to 2021, the major challenges that faced the United States in 2020 have not yet abated. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated underlying inequities, while a bitterly contested election has laid bare our political divisions. Both took place against the backdrop of ...

How Democracy Can Deliver the Most Effective Use of Power: Four Elements Democracy Support Must Address

CIPE Insight | Andrew Wilson

A wave of brazen actions by authoritarian regimes and others is causing increased alarm and leading to new thinking about the modern use and abuse of power. A military coup is playing out in Myanmar, cutting off its citizens from most of the world. Pro-democracy supporters in Hong Kong are being att...

Defining a New Social Contract: The Role of Business in Democracy

CIPE Insight | Andrew Wilson

Much of the world is increasingly concerned about inequality, climate change, and widespread political dysfunction. Over the past year, problems have been magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic, also prompting new questions about whether the liberal democratic order established after World War II has ru...