Abstract Since 2004, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) has worked with the Institute for Solidarity in Asia (ISA) to develop and promote ISA’s performance governance system (PGS) as...
Strategies for Policy Reform, Volume 2 reveals how local reformers in partnership with the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) have transformed policy dialogue in their countries to create a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...