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Rising Corruption in Karachi
Corruption in Pakistan is not a new issue, but as of late it has had a detrimental effect on the country’s economic fortunes and its ability to attract foreign investment. A 2014 report by...
View ArticleA Reservoir of Capability and Talent: Women’s Economic Empowerment and...
This post is Part 3 in a series. Read Part 1 here and part 2 here. Jump to Arbab’s remarks here. Shamama Arbab, Vice President of the Peshawar Women’s Chamber of Commerce (PWCCI) in Pakistan, is both...
View ArticleWomen in Business Mean Business: An Engaged Civil Society Organization in Nepal
This post is Part 4 in a series. Read Part 1 here, part 2 here, and part 3 here. Jump to Bhandary’s comments. Rita Bhandary is a woman in business who means business. She is the current President of...
View ArticleInvesting 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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Reports Show Weak Progress on Economic Reform in Pakistan
The World Economic Forum lists a weakening judiciary as one of the issues holding back economic reform in Pakistan. (Photo: Pakistan Today) In Pakistan, the process of economic reforms has been...
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Pakistan and Afghanistan Work to “End the Blame Game” and Increase Trade Ties
The Afghan-Pakistan border. (Photo: EPA) Afghanistan, being a landlocked country, depends on its trading route with neighboring Pakistan to get its exports to world markets. However, these two...
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Kickstarting Economic Growth in Afghanistan’s Provinces
Participants at the Nangarhar PBA launch event. A year after the impasse over the 2014 presidential election was resolved, Afghanistan finds itself at a critical juncture in its economic development....
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Regional Business Network Brings Together Women Entrepreneurs from Across...
Read more about the Women’s Business Network in a five-part blog series published earlier this year. Women across South Asia face myriad challenges when it comes to participating in the economy —...
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Ten Years of Expanding Opportunity in Pakistan
Women entrepreneurs celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week in Pakistan. How far has Pakistan come? And how much further is there to go? This month, we mark the 10th anniversary of CIPE’s office in...
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A Way Forward for Afghanistan’s Economy
Presentation of the Herat PBA in Herat City. (Photo: CIPE Afghanistan) In many respects, 2015 was the most significant year in Afghanistan since the beginning of the international military presence in...
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Women Entrepreneurs Changing the Game in South Asia #IWD2016
Participants at a Women’s Business Network meeting in Nepal in 2014. Here at CIPE, we are celebrating International Women’s Day by highlighting the achievements of the South Asia Regional Women’s...
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Democracy That Delivers Podcast: #7 Sameer Lalwani on Security Issues in...
Sameer Lalwani (center) with podcast hosts Ken Jaques and Julie Johnson. Deputy Director of the South Asia Program at the Stimson Center Sameer Lalwani (@splalwani) discusses how counterinsurgency and...
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Sparking Debate on Economic Policy in Nepal
Samriddhi wins an award at the Asia Liberty Forum in Kuala Lumpur. By Sarita Sapkota, Samriddhi In the annual Asia Liberty Forum in Malaysia this year, Atlas Network presented the Asia Liberty Award to...
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Democracy that Delivers Podcast #10: Accountability Lab’s Blair Glencorse...
Podcast hosts Ken Jaques and Julie Johnson with Blair Glencorse (center) In this week’s podcast, Executive Director of the Accountability Lab (@accountlab) Blair Glencorse talks about why...
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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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With Freedom Comes Responsibility
By Tasneem Ahmar, Director, Uks Research Center Pakistan today has a large, vibrant and diverse media. Our media by and large enjoys freedom of expression. Barring a few “sensitive” topics that come...
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Charting a Way Forward for Business in Kandahar, Afghanistan
On April 27, the Kandahar branch of the Afghan Chamber of Commerce & Industries and 28 other major business and sectoral associations in Kandahar province, with CIPE’s support, released the...
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Debate on Taxation in Pakistan: Reforms Move to the Next Level
Karachi Photo: Wikimedia Commons Pakistan’s overall tax-to-GDP ratio has been hovering around 10 per cent for the past decade, which is approximately five per cent lower than the average of comparable...
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Democracy that Delivers Podcast #28: CIPE Afghanistan Country Director...
CIPE Afghanistan Country Director Mohammed Nasib (left) with guest host Jenny Anderson. As foreign forces pull back from Afghanistan, the country faces not only the threat of renewed violence but also...
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Supporting Women’s Economic Empowerment through Women’s Chambers of Commerce
Women from the Papua New Guinea Women’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry participating in a capacity building workshop Since its creation in 1983, CIPE has been working with business associations,...
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