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Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism: What Is a Market Economy and How Can It Deliver?

Articles | Robert Litan

Article at a glance The traditional approach to studying economic growth overlooks the importance of individuals and individual firms. Market economies are not monolithic – there are four different types of capitalism (oligarchic, state-guided, big-firm, and entrepreneurial), each with different ...

Corporate Governance – The Intersection of Public and Private Reform

Guides & Tools | Eric Hontz

Introduction: The Linkages between Corporate Governance and Development Successful development efforts demand a holistic approach, in which various programs and strategies are recognized for their important contributions to progress and prosperity. In this regard, linkages between corporate governan...

Promoting Youth Development: Policy options and reform recommendations

Articles | Eric Hontz

In order to capture the potential of the dramatic increase in the youth population, new policies need to be developed in an inclusive manner. Today’s youth are tomorrow’s business leaders and elected officials. A well-crafted set of policies developed with the input of youth is critical for the ...

CIPE Reform Toolkit: Reducing Economic Informality by Opening Access to Opportunity

Guides & Tools | Kim Eric Bettcher, Nafisul Islam

Tearing down barriers to market entry opens routes to formality and creates new opportunities for both the informal sector as well as the poor. The Center for International Private Enterprise’s (CIPE) response to the informal sector addresses underlying institutional failures in order to encourage...

From the Streets to Markets: Formalization of Street Vendors in Metropolitan Lima

Case Studies | Kim Eric Bettcher, Gustavo Marini, Martin A. Friedl

This detailed review provides insight into the work done by Hernando de Soto’s Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD), which identified and promoted the crucial elements of growth that had eluded policymakers and businesspeople for decades: property rights, low barriers to market entry, cost-ef...

CIPE Guide to Program Development

Guides & Tools | Kim Eric 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

Articles | 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...

Business Associations, Business Climate, and Economic Growth: Evidence from Transition Economies

Articles | John D. Sullivan, Kim Eric Bettcher

Interest groups are rarely portrayed in a positive light. In economic theories of regulation, collective action, and rent-seeking, interest groups are commonly perceived as seeking some form of redistribution through a political process. In particular, interest groups in the private sector – busin...

Corporate Governance for Emerging Markets

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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...

Middle East and North Africa Reform: Rooted in Economic and Political Ground

Articles | John D. Sullivan, Anna Kompanek

Paper at a Glance • The key to successful reforms in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is building on the linkages between democratic governance and market economies. • Demographic pressures, an inefficient public sector, and the need for economic diversification led by the private ...

The Corporate Governance Guide for Family-Owned Companies

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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

Guides & Tools | Kim Eric 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

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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

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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

Case Studies | Kim Eric 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 ...

Creating a Voice for Entrepreneurs in Montenegro

Case Studies | Kim Eric Bettcher

The collapse of the former Yugoslavia left Montenegro with an economy in tatters, political instability, a worn-out socialist production system, and rampant corruption. After years of little progress on overcoming those obstacles, two local organizations, the Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic...

Democratic Governance: The Key to Political and Democratic Reform

Articles | John D. Sullivan, Catherine Kuchta-Helbling

Establishing the necessary governance institutions is essential to the future of democracy and free markets and to the stability of the international system. The consequences for countries lacking strong democratic governance practices can range from political to economic loses, as well as destabili...

Business Associations and Democratic Reform

Articles | John D. Sullivan

Although most groups involved in the process of democratic, market-based reform are well aware of the important economic policy fundamentals – such as macroeconomic stabilization, trade liberalization, and privatization necessary to achieve it, there is perhaps less awareness of the political dime...

Business Associations for the 21st Century – 2007

Articles | Mark McCord

As the competitive environment becomes increasingly challenging, this reading offers key advice to business leader’s seeking to create powerful and sustainable business associations that can effectively adapt to our rapidly changing world. Download the article for more information.