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CIPE Economic Reform Roundtables

Welcome to CIPE's Economic Reform forum. This forum is an important part of CIPE's mission to connect reformers around the globe. This service will allow you to listen to recorded presentations on reform efforts around the world.

Video welcome from John D. Sullivan, Executive Director, CIPE

Archived Events:

Liberal Democracy vs. XXI Century Socialism: What is the future of Colombian - Venezuelan Relations?
Marcela Prieto, Executive Director, Instituto de Ciencia Politica (ICP)
Ignacio de León, Director, CEDICE (Venezuela)

Survey of the Iraqi Private Sector: Business Attitudes Towards Political and Economic Reconstruction
Suhaib Albarzinji, CIPE Iraq Program Officer

Measuring Integrity and Improving Governance: The Global Integrity Report 2007
Nathanial Heller, Co-founder, Managing Director, Global Integrity

Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Engaging Civil Society in Reform

Presidential Power and Fiscal Crises in Argentina
Miguel Braun, Policy Director, Argentine Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth (CIPPEC)

Promoting Moral Capitalism: The Ethical Foundations of Economic Development and Social Progress
Stephen Young, Global Executive Director, Caux Round Table

A Closer Look at the Progress of Democratic and Economic Reform in Georgia
Ana Dolidze, the Harriman Institute, Columbia University
Irakly Areshidze, Author of "Democracy and Autocracy in Eurasia: Georgia in Transition."

Universal Values of Democracy and the Market Economy
Anwar Ibrahim, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Malaysia

Measuring Integrity and Improving Governance
Nathanial Heller, Co-founder, Managing Director, Global Integrity and Bradley Parks, Development Officer, Millenium Challenge Corporation.

Arbitration Procedures in International Transactions
David A. Baron, Partner, McDermott Will & Emery LLP

Uses and Abuses of Governance Indicators
Dr. Charles Oman, Senior Economist, OECD Development Centre

Indigenous Enterprise Corporation in Ecuador (in Spanish)
with Mariano Curicama, Representative of the Corporación Empresarial Indígena del Ecuador
*Please note that this event will be conducted entirely in Spanish*

Builiding Good Corporate Governance in MENA Countries
with Dr. Nasser H. Saidi, Executive Director, Hawkamah Institute for Corporate Governance

Democratic and Economic Transition in Serbia: Capturing Lessons Learned
with Dr. Boris Begović, Vice President of the Center for Liberal-Democratic Studies
Wednesday, June 7, 2006

Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free-Marketeers
with Javier Santiso, Deputy Director and Chief Development Economist, OECD Development Centre
Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Building Democratic and Corporate Governance in Pakistan
with Mahomed Jaffer, Chairman of ICI Pakistan Limited and Moin M. Fudda, Country Director, CIPE Pakistan
Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Breaking the Cycle of Development Stagnation in Kosovo
with Muhamet Mustafa, Ph.D., President, Riinvest Institute
Wednesday, April 26, 2006

The Economic Agenda of the Left in Peru
with Daniel Cordova, Ph.D., Dean, the School of Economics, Peruvian University of Applied Sciences (UPC) and Director, Invertir Project, Procapitales
Monday, April 24, 2006

Belarus After the Election: Meeting Economic Challenges
with Jaroslav Romanchuk, President, Mises Center and Economic Expert, Analytical Center “Strategy”
Monday, April 24, 2006

Corporate Governance in Russia: Past, Present, and Future
with Igor Belikov, Ph.D., Director, Russian Institute of Directors
Thursday, April 13, 2006

Addressing Iraq's Economic Challenges
with Kamal Field, Ph.D., Executive Director, the Iraq Institute for Economic Reform
Friday, January 6, 2006

Business to Business Peace Initiatives: Prospects for Economic Cooperation between Israel and Palestine
with Gershon Baskin, Ph.D. and Hanna Siniora, Co-CEOs, Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI)
Tuesday, November 22, 2005

The Future of the Competitive Association
with J.P. Moery, Senior Vice President, Federation Relations, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Monday, November 21, 2005

Strengthening Democracy in the Philippines: Civil Society Solutions to Public Governance
with Dr. Jesus Estanislao, President, Institute for Solidarity in Asia
Thursday, November 3, 2005

Taking Association Management in a New Direction: Association Management Companies
with Michael S. Olson, Executive Vice President, SmithBucklin and Ralph Marlatt, Project Manager, CIPE Montenegro
Tuesday, September 6, 2005

Encouraging Investment and Entrepreneurship in Small Economies
with Paul Holden, Director of the Enterprise Research Institute, Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Conflict Resolution in the Middle East: Private Sector Perspectives and Solutions
with Hisham Awartani, Director of the Center for Private Sector Development (CPSD), Palestinian Businessmen Association (PBA) and Charles Adwan, former Executive Director of the Lebanese Transparency Association (LTA).
Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Georgia After the Rose Revolution: An Opportunity Lost?
with Devi Khechinashvili, Partnership for Social Initiative (PSI), Tbilisi, Georgia.
Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Rebuilding Iraqi Economy
with Dr. Hussein Kubba, the founder of the Baghdad Economic Research Center (BERC)
Friday, November 5, 2004

Addressing Venezuela's Informal Sector
with Wladimir Zanoni, Center for the Dissemination of Economic Information (CEDICE)
Monday, June 28, 2004

Corruption in the Serbian Judiciary
with Boris Begovic, Center for Liberal-Democratic Studies
Wednesday, May 5, 2004

Getting the House in Order: Opportunities and Economic Reform in Saudi Arabia
with Usamah Al-Kurdi
Member of Saudi Arabia’s Consultative (Shura) Council
Executive Committee Member, National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce
Wednesday, April 29, 2004

Women and Business Leadership in the Arab World – Insights from Egypt
with Loula Zaklama
Member of the Board - AmCham Egypt
President and Managing Director, Rada Research & Public Relations Co.
Tuesday, April 6, 2004

Amending China’s Constitution: From Dictatorship to Peaceful Democratization
with Cao Siyuan
President, Beijing Siyuan Research
Center for Social Sciences
Tuesday, February 24, 2004

Promoting Institutional Reforms in Latin America
CIPE and Ronald Coase Institute
December 12 - 13, 2003

Transparency, Investment, and the Shifting Business Environment in Central Asia
with Demir Yener, Ph.D.
Monday, November 24, 2003

Economic Progress in Romania
The CIPE Romania Office Closing Ceremony
Thursday, September 25, 2003
(in Romanian)

The 12 Standards for Financial Stability
with George Vojta of the E-Standards Forum
Tuesday, September 9, 2003

Driving the Bulldozer: Improving Bosnia's Business Environment Through Policy Change
with Benjamin Herzberg of the Office of the High Representative, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Wednesday, September 3, 2003

Anti-Corruption Strategies and Successes
with The Center for International Private Enterprise, U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and Phelps Stokes Fund.
Monday, July 14, 2003

Real Property Markets: The Real Solution for Economic Development
with the The Center for International Private Enterprise, American Land Title Association, Appraisal Institute, International Real Property Foundation and Fannie Mae.
Tuesday, June 24, 2003

Argentina: Is the Crisis Over?
with FIEL (Latin American Economic Research Foundation)
Wednesday, June 18, 2003

Reducing to Cost of Doing Business in Bangladesh
with Farooq Sobhan
Monday, April 28, 2003

Russian Companies Make Their Way to the Market: Progress and Prospects of Russian Corporate Governance
with Gennady Kolesnikov
Wednesday , March 5, 2003

The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism
Thursday, Februrary 13, 2003
US Chamber of Commerce
1615 H St.
Washington DC

Did the Market Economy Fail in Latin America? The Second Generation of Institutional Reform
With Paul Holden
Monday, October 28, 2002

Applying Company Anti-Corruption Strategies in a Competitive Environment
With Alexandra Wrage
Monday, October 21, 2002

Balkan Anti Corruption Roundtable
Wednesday, October 2, 2002
Thursday, October 3, 2002

The Path to Democracy in Peru: The Need for Governance Reform
With Gabriel Ortiz De Zevallos
Thursday, September 19, 2002

Business Ethics, Governance and Combating Corruption
With John P. Linstroth, President, JPL Land Development Corporation and member of the Florida Commission on Ethics.
Monday, September 9, 2002

Corporate Governance in Africa
With Karugor Gatamah, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Private Sector Corporate Governance Trust in Kenya.
Thursday, June 20, 2002

"Why Many Developing Countries Just Aren’t"
With John Talbott.
Thursday, June 6, 2002

Centuries of Economic Endeavor: Why some countries prosper and others do not
With Jack Powelson
Friday, May 10, 2002

Ukraine's Agenda for Reform
With Yuri Yekhanurov
Friday, May 3, 2002

Discussion with Mr. Ivan Miklos
Deputy Prime Minister for Economy of the Slovak Republic
Monday, April 22, 2002

Will Globalization and WTO Bring Rule of Law to China?
With Mr. Cao Siyuan.
Friday, April 19, 2002

Islam, Democracy, and Market Economy
with Ambassador Ozdem Sanberk
Director of the Istanbul-based Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV)
November 7, 2001

Russian Corporate Governance Code
Presentation by Gennady Kolesnikov at the US Chamber of Commerce
October 18, 2001

Corporate Governance: An Antidote to Corruption
CIPE Workshop at the 10th International Anti-Corruption Conference Prague, Czech Republic
October 8, 2001

NACCIMA - Trade Mission to the United States
Washington, DC
September 10, 2001

Political and Economic Insecurity: Civil-military Relations in Venezuela
Washington, DC
May 22, 2001

Women: The Emerging Economic Force
Washington, DC
June 15 - 16, 2000

"The Mystery Of Capital: What It Takes To Make Free Markets Work"
Featuring HERNANDO DE SOTO, Economist and Founder of Peru's Institute for Liberty and Democracy. REMARKS BY THE HON. DANA ROHRABACHER, Member, Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives Washington, DC
September 27, 2000

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