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The Inherent Link Between Democracy, Markets, and Human Dignity

Democracy is going through some trying times. Widespread popular discontent during the last decade leaves no room for doubt over the deepening crisis of legitimacy for liberal and market economy institutions. Autocrats and populists stoke resentment, hostility, and division in messaging usually conf...

Understanding the Experience of Women in Business Online: Survey Results from Kosovo, Cambodia, and Colombia

To succeed in today’s economy, many business owners and entrepreneurs need and want to be able to move their businesses online safely. From September 2022 to June 2023, CIPE’s Center for Women’s Economic Empowerment (CWEE) commissioned surveys of women business owners and entrepreneurs in Camb...

Seizing Opportunities and Removing Barriers: Women Business Leaders from Four Countries Share Insights

Good endings make for better beginnings, and that’s the spirit that infused CIPE’s Washington, D.C. headquarters on September 19. With a major program run by CIPE’s Center for Women’s Economic Empowerment (CWEE) and CIPE regional teams from Morocco, Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Guatemala comin...

Pathways to Policy Influence – How Kenyan Business Membership Organizations Influence Policy to Improve the Business Ecosystem

Policy and Program Learning’s (PPL) Applied Research Unit works with CIPE’s leadership to identify knowledge gaps in CIPE’s programmatic priorities, creating a learning agenda through PPL’s expanding network of international scholars and in-house research. The Policy Solutions series synthes...

Mainstreaming Gender in Trade Policy and Agreements in Africa

Introduction Trade and gender constitute a two-way relationship. The degree and form of gender inequalities caused by trade demands a response, and gender inequalities negatively affect trade strategies, policies, and outcomes. Gender mainstreaming refers to an approach to governance that integrates...

Resilient Journeys: The Importance of Supporting Refugee Entrepreneurs

Where human resilience and the entrepreneurial spirit intersect, there lies an array of untold stories – the stories of refugee entrepreneurs spurring innovation amidst adversity. Around the world today, over 108 million people are forcibly displaced, including both refugee and internally displac...

Stopping the War and Making the Peace in Sudan

Sudan Experts Call for Anti-Corruption, Inclusion, and Private Sector Leadership On the six-month anniversary of the latest outbreak of war in Sudan, a panel of experts gathered at CIPE’s Washington headquarters to discuss the causes, the destruction, and the diminishing ability of the country’s...

Empowering Voices: A Journey with Businesswomen from the Sahel

I recently traveled to Mauritania for the first time. As the newest senior program manager for the Center for International Private Enterprise, in West Africa, I was there to meet with our local team, partners, and beneficiaries, to gain a deeper understanding of the fast-moving events in this unst...

CELIS 23: Advancing Economic Security and Investment Screening in Europe

CIPE is a patron of the upcoming CELIS Forum on Investment Screening and Economic Security (CFIS 2023), a highly anticipated conference of global experts and government leaders in Prague. This will happen just ahead of the US-EU Summit in Washington. CIPE Europe Program Director Jeff Lightfoot previ...

Tools, Resources, and the Significance of Protecting Data Privacy for Businesses Part II

In Part 1 of this data privacy series, we focused on the importance of maintaining data privacy for individuals and entrepreneurs and provided in-depth analysis of relevant tools and resources. In Part 2, we will now focus on the business side of this subject. When using the internet and digital dev...