Podcasts
Resilient Journeys: The Importance of Supporting Refugee Entrepreneurs
Where human resilience and the entrepreneurial spirit intersect, there lies an array of untold stories – the stories of refugee entrepreneurs spurring innovation amidst adversity. Around the world today, over 108 million people are forcibly displaced, including both refugee and internally displaced populations. Across refugee communities, entrepreneurship is a vehicle to achieve economic prosperity and social integration, as well as to restore livelihood to refugees that may feel lost or isolated. This year, Ukrainian refugees opened 10% of all new sole-proprietor businesses in Poland, and Syrian refugees have opened over 10,000 new businesses in Turkey since 2011. Moreover, entrepreneurship is a key proponent of democratic values, as the entrepreneurial…
Research To Support Women’s Economic Empowerment
The Center for Women’s Economic Empowerment (CWEE) at CIPE advances gender equality in emerging markets to build more inclusive, thriving economies and democracies that deliver for all citizens. This brief outlines how CIPE supports women’s economic empowerment (WEE) by partnering with institutions to research key questions on the barriers to women’s participation in the economy. This list includes examples of recent CIPE research and surveying and presents areas of interest for future research, project, and policy exploration. Background According to the 2022 Global Gender Gap report, it will take 132 years to close the Global Gender Gap . Closing the gender…
Boosting Association Revenues
One of the risks facing many African associations is their dependence on membership revenues. The American Association of Association Executives (ASAE), which conducts annual studies of chamber and association executives, found that membership revenue has been declining over time and the cost of membership services is gradually increasing. Indeed the administration maintains that it has made progress on its war on corruption. It has prosecuted some big fish, including two former governors. The administration has implemented some reforms, such as a single Treasury account, in which government oversees a single bank account for all revenue. It has introduced a biometric identification system in…
“Corruption breeds incompetence.”
