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Looking Toward the Future: The Business Case for Corporate Governance

Articles | John D. Sullivan, Anna Kompanek

The essence of inclusive market economies is the institutional framework where private entrepreneurs have the opportunities to create and build wealth, to maximize their value to society, and to grow...

Guide to Youth Entrepreneurship Programs

Guides & Tools | Maiko Nakagaki, Colin Bueger, Lauren Citrome, Molly Brister, Anna Kompanek

This guidebook is a resource for chambers of commerce, associations, and other business-oriented groups seeking to address some of the obstacles that young people face as they attempt to enter...

Improving Public Governance: Closing the Implementation Gap between Law and Practice

Articles | Maiko Nakagaki, Anna Kompanek, Marko Tominic

Implementation gap is the difference between laws on the books and how they are carried out in practice. Many countries have legal frameworks that in principle should allow them to...

How to Sustain Burma’s Path Towards Democracy: The Need for Institutional Reform

Articles | John Morrell

Introduction In his speech at the July United States- Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Business Forum in Siem Reap, Cambodia, Burma President U Thein Sein explained that Burma “has...

The Philippine Experience in Transition

Articles | Jesus P. Estanislao

Article at a glance: • The experience of the Philippines can be instructive to countries currently undergoing their own democratic transitions. • Citizenship in a democracy requires responsibility. Rights and...

Corporate Citizenship Manual for Development Finance Institutions

Guides & Tools

DFIs as Responsible Corporate Citizens Sustainability, a recent trend in international development, has redefined how companies and financial institutions around the world do business. Whereas before, business actions were largely...

Property Rights, Development, and Democratic Transitions: The Path Ahead

Articles | Anna Kompanek

Since the publication of Hernando de Soto’s landmark book The Mystery of Capital in 2000, the link between property rights and economic development, especially for the world’s poor, has become...

A Resource Handbook for Economic and Business Journalists

Guides & Tools | Syed Asad Hussain

The media has the responsibility to provide society with objective, accurate, and timely information of economic trends and events, however incomprehensible jargon is regularly used in news reports without an...

The Roles of Economic Think Tanks in Democratic Policymaking & the Keys to Think Tank Success

Articles | Kim Eric Bettcher

Strong, well-informed think tanks strengthen democratic governance in ways that simply can’t be replicated by other advocacy groups. Economic think tanks are indispensable to CIPE, as they explain the benefits...

Building Institutions that Make Property Markets Work

Articles | Anna Kompanek

Understanding of property rights often remains limited to property titles, without deeper appreciation of the underlying and interconnected institutions that make property rights meaningful and allow property markets to function....

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