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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

Case Studies

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

Case Studies

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

Case Studies

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

Case Studies

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

Case Studies

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...