Strategies for Policy Reform: Experiences from Around the World

Author: Kim Bettcher, Knowledge Management Officer, Center for International Private Enterprise
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In so many countries, progress and prosperity depend on the creation of real avenues for popular input in public policymaking. Yet, while local knowledge is vital to policy solutions, knowledge of how to reform the policy process itself is often limited. We would like to share with you a set of models for policy reform that have answered this challenge. Strategies for Policy Reform: Experiences from Around the World reveals how local reformers in partnership with CIPE have transformed their countries to advance democratic policymaking and free market economies. The innovative programs described here have improved democratic governance and the business climate to deliver tangible benefits to citizens—in a word, to make democracy deliver. They are all founded on the conviction that progress requires freedom and that the private sector must lead the way in creating institutional change to expand freedom. The accomplishments give hope to reformers elsewhere and illuminate paths to a better future. Strategies for Policy Reform provides reform leaders with an array of effective strategies to inspire and guide them. They can select relevant strategies for better governance, expanded economic opportunity, and popular participation, and adapt the strategies for the greatest benefit to their constituents and their countries. Chapters: Democratic governance, Legal & regulatory reform, Anti-corruption, Building capacity, Informal sector, Women entrepreneurs, Corporate governance, Access to information