Investing in Bangladesh: A Gender-Smart Approach to Private Sector Development
This post is Part 5 in a series. Read Part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here, and part 4 here. Jump to Ahmad’s comments. Over the last 28 years, Selima Ahmad, the founder of the Bangladesh Women’s...
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Meet the 2015 Global Photo Competition Winners
Joseph Balikuddembe, Uganda Joseph Balikuddembe is a web application developer from Uganda. “[My] background and passion for fine arts manifested in my desire and love for photography, a passion am...
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Helping Diaspora Investors Make a Difference in their Home Countries
A shop in Hong Kong where people can receive money sent from abroad. Remittances accounted for more than 80 percent of foreign investment into mainland China from 1979 to 1995. (Photo: Wikimedia...
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The Voice of Youth in Economic Policymaking
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of presenting at the 2015 Global Youth Economic Summit in Washington, DC, where over 450 leaders and practitioners from 50 countries came together. The theme of...
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Learning From Each Other: Empowering Women Through Business Member Organizations
Participants at the ITCILO training in Turin. (Photo: ITCILO) As many previous CIPE blog pieces have pointed out, empowering women entrepreneurs leads to inclusive economic growth around the world....
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Global Entrepreneurship Week Q&A with Karen Kerrigan
Karen Kerrigan is the president & CEO of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council and a board member and former chair of CIPE. For more than twenty years Kerrigan’s leadership, advocacy...
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Fighting Informality in Albania
With reports showing a steady increase of the level of informality in Albania and recent World Bank reports that Albania’s informal sector is estimated to make up as much as 40 to 50 percent of the...
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Small Associations as a Way to Strengthen Financial Security
By Rosino (Flickr) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsBy Hanna Rhodin How do you go about starting a business when you lack the education or financial means? The answers often depend on the region,...
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Kuwait Needs More Young Entrepreneurs
Photo: Hanna Rhodin By Hanna Rhodin There is a long history of a bustling merchant culture in Kuwait. Since the 18th century, the country has been known for trade: whether in exchanging goods with...
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Leveraging the Youth Bulge to Transform the Arab World
Syrian Economic Forum students learning civic education in Syria. Last Thursday marked five years since Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was ousted from power in what has come to be known as...
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Surviving in Economic Crisis: A Nigerian Woman Entrepreneur’s Story
Pat Agbakwu-Ajegwu in front of her store. “As a business owner, you either choose to survive or die. And surviving in this state of economic crisis in Nigeria requires creative thinking.” On my recent...
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Disruptive Development: Harnessing the Power of the Fourth Industrial...
Many say that we are in the midst of a Fourth Industrial Revolution, characterized by rapid and transformative technological advancement on a scale the world has never seen before. This Fourth...
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Profiting from Parity: The Business Case for Gender Integration in Value Chains
Photo: BURN Clean Cookstoves Sustainable Development Goal 5 set the bar to “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls” by 2030. Closing gender gaps in work and society could add $12...
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Small Business in Egypt: the Heavy Burden of Following the Rules
Sayed Diab makes his living providing sound systems and digital services for events like this CIPE discussion. (Photo: CIPE Egypt) By Ahmed ElSawy This post originally appeared in Arabic on the CIPE...
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Fostering a Spirit of Entrepreneurship in Bahrain
For the past four years, the Center for International Private Enterprise has been working in partnership with the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs to assist local partners in...
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A Dream Come to Life
Selva Constructor, Karolo’s latest business venture, is an architecture and construction firm based in Tarapoto, Peru. CIPE began working with Peruvian NGO, Instituto Invertir, in 2008, with the belief...
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Democracy that Delivers Podcast #13: WEConnect International’s Elizabeth...
Podcast hosts Ken Jaques and Julie Johnson with Elizabeth Vasquez (center) President, CEO and Co-Founder of WEConnect International Elizabeth A. Vazquez discusses the biggest challenges that women...
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How Selling Online Helps Small Businesses in the Developing World Break into...
From the report on page 14. It shows that in 2014, eBay was the primarily an export platform for the eBay-enabled SMEs in Chile, Colombia, South Africa, Indonesia, and Thailand Can e-commerce markets...
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Helping Earthquake-Affected Farmers Get Back on their Feet in Nepal
Women are crucial to Nepal’s agricultural sector. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) Just over a year after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake left thousands dead, destroyed centuries-old UNESCO World Heritage sites,...
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Democracy that Delivers Podcast #15: Business Development Expert Toki...
Podcast hosts Ken Jaques and Julie Johnson with guest Toki Mabogunje (right) Business development consultant Toki Mabogunje (Twitter: @tmc_nig) talks about the current business climate in Nigeria, how...
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