Resources - Center for International Private Enterprise

Corporate Governance for Emerging Markets

Guides & Tools

This toolkit introduces key concepts in corporate governance, provides a framework for applying corporate governance principles to emerging markets situations, and outlines the four-step strategy developed by the Center for International Private Enterprise for corporate governance reform. For inform...

Business Associations, Business Climate, and Economic Growth: Evidence from Transition Economies

Articles | John D. Sullivan, Kim Eric Bettcher

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 a political process. In particular, interest groups in the private sector – busin...

From Sustainable Companies to Sustainable Economies: Corporate Governance as a Transformational Development Tool

Articles | Andrew Wilson

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 citizens beyond elections. In such countries, day-to-day decision-making processes remain o...

CIPE Guide to Program Development

Guides & Tools | Kim Eric Bettcher

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 designing and implementing their own reforms tailored to their country’s situation. Helping bui...

From the Streets to Markets: Formalization of Street Vendors in Metropolitan Lima

Case Studies | Kim Eric Bettcher, Gustavo Marini, Martin A. Friedl

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 eluded policymakers and businesspeople for decades: property rights, low barriers to market entry, cost-ef...

CIPE Reform Toolkit: Reducing Economic Informality by Opening Access to Opportunity

Guides & Tools | Kim Eric Bettcher, Nafisul Islam

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 (CIPE) response to the informal sector addresses underlying institutional failures in order to encourage...

Promoting Youth Development: Policy options and reform recommendations

Articles | Eric Hontz

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 and elected officials. A well-crafted set of policies developed with the input of youth is critical for the ...

Corporate Governance – The Intersection of Public and Private Reform

Guides & Tools | Eric Hontz

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 prosperity. In this regard, linkages between corporate governan...

Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism: What Is a Market Economy and How Can It Deliver?

Articles | Robert Litan

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 of capitalism (oligarchic, state-guided, big-firm, and entrepreneurial), each with different ...

Strategies for Policy Reform Volume 2: Engaging in Democratic Governance

Case Studies

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 vibrant private sector and civil society. This volume presents models of effective, innovative...