• News from around CIPE Partner Network

    24 April, 2013

    The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) strengthens democracy around the globe through private enterprise and market-oriented reform. CIPE is one of the four core institutes of the National Endowment for Democracy. Since 1983, CIPE has worked with business leaders, policymakers, and journalists to build the civic institutions vital to a democratic society. CIPE's key program areas include anti-corruption, advocacy, business associations, corporate governance, democratic governance, access to information, the informal sector and property rights, and women and youth.

  • Atlas Network: Announcing the New Templeton Freedom Award

    24 April, 2013

    To mark the tenth year of administering the Templeton Freedom Awards, Atlas offers this special edition of Highlights to announce the 2013 Templeton Freedom Award with its new prize structure. For the first time in its history and in future years, the award will be presented to one winner along with a $100,000 prize recognizing exceptional think tank achievement. This fall, six finalists will be invited to attend the annual Liberty Forum in New York City, November 13-14, where the winner will be announced during the event's Freedom Dinner, November 14. All finalists will receive a $5,000 prize.

  • News from around the CIPE Partner Network

    09 February, 2012

    The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) strengthens democracy around the globe through private enterprise and market-oriented reform. CIPE is one of the four core institutes of the National Endowment for Democracy. Since 1983, CIPE has worked with business leaders, policymakers, and journalists to build the civic institutions vital to a democratic society

  • Asia Centre for Enterprise

    20 January, 2012

    Atlas Economic Research Foundation and Centre for Civil Society are launching a social change seed fund to identify and support individuals and organisations that promote liberal ideas and policies in Asia. The fund, Asia Centre for Enterprise (ACE) will play the role in Asia that Atlas Foundation plays globally, acting as a mentor and intellectual angel investor.

  • CRUISE THE BALTIC SEA WITH TFAS: COPENHAGEN TO STOCKHOLM

    29 November, 2011

    Join TFAS leadership on a 10-day voyage to eight countries across the Baltic Sea on the luxurious Oceania Nautica. Sail through Viking waters to discover the Nordic world, and visit historic sites of the Cold War.

  • 2011 Atlas Liberty Forum & Freedom Dinner

    25 October, 2011

    Atlas is celebrating three decades of leadership in advancing the principles of a free society worldwide. The Atlas Liberty Forum attracts “freedom champions” from more than 40 countries to share strategies for winning victories for liberty. The gala Freedom Dinner features Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. Together these events amount to the most inspiring, and most value-adding, event of the year for the international freedom movement. Register today for these important events – you’re certain to leave with new ideas, new friends, and wonderful memories!

  • Atlas Economic Research Foundation announced the winner of the 22nd Annual Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award

    30 March, 2011

    Atlas Economic Research Foundation announced the winner of the 22nd Annual Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award. The MacDonald-Laurier Institute of Canada won for its 2010 publication The Canadian Century: Moving out of America’s Shadow, by Brian Lee Crowley, Jason Clemens and Niels Veldhuis.

  • CIPE's "Strategies for Policy Reform, Volume 2" on market.

    27 October, 2010

    Strategies for Policy Reform, Volume 2 reveals how local reformers in partnership with CIPE have transformed their countries to enhance democratic governance and the business climate. Through 15 case studies of successful reform strategies, It illustrates the power of engaging diverse representatives of the private sector in policy advocacy to bring local solutions to local challenges.

  • CATO new book: The Right to Earn a Living

    19 August, 2010

    The Right to Earn a Living: Economic Freedom and the Law (Hardback) By Timothy Sandefur, explores the legal and constitutional history of the right to earn a living without unreasonable government interference, and reveals the many ways in which that right is threatened today.

  • New Book from the CATO institute

    21 April, 2010

    CATO institute has published its new book "The struggle to limit government" by JOHN SAMPLES who is the director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Representative Government and author of The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform.

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