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Building a More Fair and Vibrant Global Economy

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Efforts to ensure gender equality and inclusion are growing priorities for communities and governments worldwide. Many are looking to CIPE’s Center for Women’s Economic Empowerment (CWEE) and its wide global partner network to help make change. CWEE, which officially celebrates its third anniver...

There Is More to Democracy That Delivers

CIPE Insight | Aarya Nijat

U.S. President Joe Biden will host a virtual democracy summit on December 9-10, 2021. The purpose of the summit is to exercise American leadership towards global democratic renewal by focusing across three principal themes: defending against authoritarianism, fighting corruption, and promoting r...

Smart Recovery: Digitization and Transparency will Drive Africa’s Private Sector Growth

CIPE Insight | Lola Adekanye, Greg Cohen

While Africa has so far avoided the worst of the health consequences of the coronavirus, relative to other parts of the world, the pandemic has laid bare the underlying market fragility across the continent. The pan-African economy is enduring its first extreme recession in 25 years, pushing per cap...

The Link Between Open Economies and Open Societies

CIPE Insight | Kim Eric Bettcher

Editors’s note: This article was first posted on The Foreign Policy Centre website and is part of a larger publication with Westminster Foundation for Democracy. Title: “Global Britain for an open world?” The challenge of defending and advancing democracy around the world is intertwined with ...

Democracies Must Build Trust to Drive COVID-19 Recovery

CIPE Insight | Anna Kompanek

“Trust” means having a confident relationship with the unknown. According to Rachel Botsman, Trust Fellow at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, that includes enabling small and large acts of cooperation that add up to increased economic efficiency. Likewise, it is necessary for people ...

Make 2022 a Year of Action to Promote Democracy and Opportunity

CIPE Insight | Andrew Wilson

This December, the Biden Administration will convene the first-ever Summit for Democracy. This important gathering, with its three pillars – fighting authoritarianism, battling corruption, and advancing respect for human rights – comes at a critical moment. It will galvanize people who believe ...

Whither Democracy? Perspectives from South Asia

CIPE Insight | Aarya Nijat

Aarya Nijat in Conversation with Akash Shrestha, Dr. Ali Riaz, Dr. Nishan De Mel & Dr. Vaqar Ahmed. Expert responses are almost verbatim, edited only for continuity, length and flow. President Biden is convening a virtual Summit for Democracy on December 9-10. This will be the first of two summi...

What Risks May Lurk: China’s Investments and Lending in Emerging Democracies

CIPE Insight | John Morrell

One need not look far to find news stories today about China’s overseas ambitions. Barely a month passes without another headline announcing yet another China-funded project in yet another country with so many billions of dollars that one can’t help but wonder if the newspaper editors included e...

Meeting the Summit of the Americas Challenges

CIPE Insight | John Zemko

The Summit of the Americas held June 6-10 should spur new dialogue between governments and businesses in the hemisphere on various challenges Many Latin American leaders at the Ninth Summit of the Americas face a stark reality: how to address increasing challenges to democracy in the region. Econom...

Us, the Machines, and Democracy

CIPE Insight | Louisa Tomar

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are quickly evolving as the scale of computation power and the volume of data continues to grow. This technology already has major implications for society, business, governance, rule of law and human rights. Globally, norms and standards around AI&...