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Good Business Practices with a Gender Focus in Ecuador

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A Methodological Guide This methodological guide is part of “Good Business Practices with a Gender Focus in Ecuador,” a research project promoted by the Fundacion Haciendo Ecuador with the support of the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) in close collaboration with the Chambers ...

Best Practices Manual — Board of Directors Elections for Women’s Business Associations

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CIPE and its partner, Asociación Red Empresarias y Emprendedoras para el Desarrollo Sostenible (AREED), have worked together for several years to increase the capacity of women’s business associations across Central America through mentorship, strategic planning, and capacity building workshops. ...

Private Sector How-To Guides to Assess and Incorporate Gender Equity Practices

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CIPE partnered with EAFIT University in Medellin, Colombia, to research how private sector companies can integrate gender equity policies and initiatives at the company level. EAFIT University is a member of the Business Alliance for Gender Equity in Antioquia, a public-private initiative launched i...

Corali Project: Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in Guatemala

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The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) works with the Red Nacional de Grupos Gestores (RNGG) to support women’s economic empowerment in Guatemala, especially in rural communities where women face the most serious challenges. In late 2021, CIPE launched a pilot Women’s Business Re...

Central America Flyer – Fall 2022

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Authoritarian Capital in Chile – Risks and Recommendations

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Investments from authoritarian countries have grown in Chile over the past two decades. In the context of Chile’s democratic institutions and liberal economic structure, foreign interests are traditionally welcomed, regardless of their origins. Stemming primarily from China, as well from United Ar...

Chinese Investments In Ecuador: Analysis and Proposals For Institutional Improvement

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The establishment of liberal democracy as the system of global democracy now seems further away than ever. The world is experiencing a democratic recession where it faces new threats. As risk factors, new far-right regimes and some former socialist republics have joined absolutist monarchies finance...

Roadmaps for Transparent Public Procurement in the Andean Region

Surveys

Survey to Identify Corruption Gaps and Improvements in the Transparency of Procurement Processes in the Andean Region Between 2021 and 2022, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) and Ipsos Napoleón Franco conducted 750 surveys in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, totaling 2,250 surveys ...

Centro de Estudios de la Realidad Económica y Social (CERES): Money in a Digital Economy

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There is a tendency to believe that the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated a process that was already underway in many parts of the world: the transition to an economy that requires fewer and fewer cash transactions, a cashless economy. Although this is thought to have occurred primarily because of c...

Fundación Libertad: White Paper on the Private Sector in Argentina

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Introduction: Argentine democracy is in a worrying state, and not only because of the weak respect that the current government shows regarding democratic and republican principles, division of powers, regard for justice and freedom of the press. These problems are complex and politics by itself is t...

Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in Guatemala

Case Studies | CIPE

The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) works with the Red Nacional de Grupos Gestores (RNGG) to support women’s economic empowerment in Guatemala, especially in rural communities where women face the most serious challenges. In 2021, CIPE launched a pilot Women’s Business Resourc...

Good Business Practices for Gender Equality

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Since 2018, a series of conversations among different organizations in Medellin, Colombia, about the existence of gender gaps in the business sector have led to the creation of strategies that could address the root causes and close the identified gaps. Concerns raised by the private sector resulted...

Public Perception of Economic and Social Reforms in Bolivia

Case Studies | CIPE

In Bolivia, CIPE worked with an advocacy business group to help frame reform priorities, based on credible economic arguments, by incorporating the perspectives of civil society. To understand what the public thought about which reforms were needed, CIPE designed a survey and contracted CiesMor...

CIPE’s Work in Central America

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CIPE Overview Populations in Central America are growing more quickly than the Latin America regional average. However, this trend isn’t translating into enough economic development and job creation. Corruption and the lack of sustained public policies by governments contributed to an overall la...

Governance and Institutional Framework for Infrastructure Financing in Argentina

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Investment in public infrastructure is important for the development of the country and its capacities in energy, logistics and other commercial activities that influence the productivity of the economy. In 2020 the State invested about 1.3% of GDP and in 2021 it was raised as an important economic ...

COVID-19 and Corruption in Latin America: The Pandemic’s Impact on Corruption Risks in Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina

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Introduction COVID-19 and Corruption in Latin America Over the course of the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has deepened existing social, economic, and political inequalities, profoundly transforming communities around the world. In Latin America, countries throughout the region have sustained a s...

Foreign Investment in Bolivia – Exploratory Studies on Constructive Capital

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There is no development without growth, and no growth without investment. This line of chance requires, of course, many additional conditions to be fullfed, and this book helps to identify some aspects that have rarely been addressed in Bolivian eco-nomic studies. A similar effort was made in a prev...

Corrosive Capital – The Chilean Case

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The present investigation is part of a regional project of the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), that seeks to fight Corrosive Capital in Latin America. These capitals are foreign investments from nondemocratic countries that enter a country taking advantage of its institutional we...

Infografías – Camaras de Comercio Medellín y Putumayo

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On November 19, 2020, CIPE’s Latin America team held an event as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week titled “A Conversation with Colombia’s Chambers of Commerce.” The panelists included: Lina Vélez, President of the Chamber of Commerce of Medellin since 2002 Decci Ibarra, Exec...

El Capital Corrosivo en Bolivia y los Retos de Buena Gobernanza

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El concepto de “capital corrosivo” desarrollado en este libro permite sintetizar un importante fenómeno que afecta a Bolivia: la presencia de capitales pertenecientes o vinculados a Estados no democráticos que aprovechan la debilidad del sistema institucional y de la seguridadjurídica en otro...