AFRICA

Corporate Governance for Sustainable Growth, Ghana
CIPE sponsored a two-day conference in Accra, Ghana that brought together over 50 public and private sector participants from Ghana and Nigeria. The conference was made possible with funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Exxon-Mobile, and in cooperation with the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) in Ghana and the Development Policy Center in Nigeria.

ASIA

Asian Economic Crisis and Corporate Governance Reform Conference
"The Asian Economic Crisis and Corporate Governance Reform" conference, held September 12-14, 1999 in Bangkok, Thailand, was sponsored by CIPE, the Thai Federation of Industries, the Thai Chamber of Commerce, and the Institute for Management Education for Thailand (IMET) Foundation. Conference participants represented an unprecendented gathering of senior business executives from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Thailand, several of which were hit hard by the Asian economic crisis. Click on the link above for conference highlights, selected speeches, and outcomes.

CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

Business Views on Corporate Governance
In Sofia, Bulgaria, September 22-23, 2000, The Center for International Private Enterprise held a regional forum on corporate governance in Sofia, Bulgaria in partnership with local co-host, the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD). The conference was generously supported by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and also by the East-East Program of the Open Society Institute. The fifth in a series of regional conferences focusing on reform issues, the event was a successful kickoff to CIPE's Regional Corporate Governance Initiative.