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Managing Third-Party Corruption Risk: The Case of Safaricom and Its Suppliers

Case Studies

This case study highlights the importance of anti-corruption compliance in the modern marketplace, specifically examining how it applies to supplier relationships in Kenya. Anti-corruption compliance continues to be a challenge among mid-sized businesses that, more often than not, are exposed to cor...

The Importance of ‘Where’ in Revitalization Strategies for Nepal — Part 2

Articles | Paul Lundberg, Indra Sharan KC

Summary National policies and programs are necessary to provide immediate relief to the people of Nepal. Care must be taken, however, to match policy to reality because extreme diversity in the economic potential of individual places characterizes the Nepali landscape. Although over two-thirds of th...

Bangladesh In the Shadow of COVID-19

Articles | Ali Riaz

Introduction Bangladesh has been experiencing a slow and incremental process of democratic backsliding since 2011, particularly after the one-sided election in 2014. Now it has joined the bandwagon of countries experiencing a dramatic decline in civil rights and freedom of expression in the wake of ...

Indonesia in Post COVID-19 Global Value Chain Restructuring

Articles | Andree Surianta

Introduction Amidst the unfolding pandemic, governments across the world are struggling to find ways to keep their economies afloat. As corporations switch to survival mode, market liquidity is draining rapidly and this is expected to drag international trade and investment down by over 30% (WTO 202...

Stalling the Pandemic of Corruption

Articles | Sujeev Shakya

Introduction On June 6, 2020, a frustrated young Nepali started a Facebook page entitled ‘Enough Is Enough.’ His frustrations were with government apathy towards the COVID 19 pandemic and continuous political wrangling, nationalistic jingoism in the form of redrawing maps, and corruption in gove...

Catering to the Vulnerable: Need for Overhauling of Social Security in Bangladesh

Articles | Dr. Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir

Introduction Women and marginalized communities are proving to be the most vulnerable to both the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic costs of the ongoing lockdown as the pandemic spreads across Bangladesh. Since these communities are dependent on informal employment, and because most of them are in...

COVID-19’s Arrival in PNG: Impacts on PNG Women-Owned and -Operated MSMEs

Surveys | Jane Kim, Hannah Rosenfeld

Executive Summary This report presents the findings of a mixed-method survey conducted to examine the operating environment of businesswomen in Papua New Guinea (PNG) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the economic pressures of COVID-19, women entrepreneurs face high risks of business suspe...

Restarting Pakistan’s Economy: Focus on the People, not the Stats

Articles | Dr. S Akbar Zaidi

Introduction On June 25, Pakistan reduced its interest rates – for the fifth time in only 100 days – to 7%, almost half the rate of 13.25% just three months ago. The statement released by the Monetary Policy Committee of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said that this most recent decision ‘sho...

Programmatic Assessment Report: Empowering Marginal Economic Actors through Policy Reform from the Bottom-Up

Articles | Dobrina Gogova, Ahmed Mohammed Awel, Getachew Sileshi, Helen Alemayehu

Beginning in April 2020 CIPE implemented an assessment of marginal economic actors and business and civil society organizations in Ethiopia to assess the initial impacts of COVID-19. Through a series of virtually conducted key informant interviews, CIPE collected data on issues pertaining to the ...

Restarting the Economy: A Seven-Point Framework

Articles | Dr. Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir

Introduction Bangladesh requires economic restructuring to address both the damage caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and pre-existing structural problems. The non-pharmacological intervention (general holidays) enacted to contain the virus was formally lifted in May in an effort to revive the economy....