Name of the project: Addressing Corrosive Capital Flows
Donor: Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
Duration: July 11, 2019 – June 30, 2020
Budget: $32,517.89
Partners: The International and Security Affairs Centre – ISAC Fund (Serbia), Centre for Contemporary Politics (European Western Balkans) (Serbia), Centers for Civil Initiatives (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Center for Democratic Transition (Montenegro)
Description: The objectives of this project are 1) to strengthen the role of private sector-led initiatives that advance local solutions to economic and governance challenges and 2) to improve governance based on liberal democratic and marker-oriented principles and institutions in authoritarian countries and emerging democracies. Project’s case studies in North Macedonia are the Miladinovci-Shtip and Kichevo-Ohrid highway sections, whose constructions is financed by a loan from the Export-Import Bank of China and led by the Chinese company Sinohydro Corporation Ltd. The project activities entail strategic planning, identification and analysis of high-risk foreign capital inflows and governance gaps, roundtables on the policy papers with the private sector, meetings on the policy papers with public officials, and public policy roundtables and other local outreach on the policy papers.
Name of the project: Addressing Corrosive Capital Flows II
Donor: Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
Duration: June 2021 – July 2022
Budget: $48,885
Description: The main objective of the project is to build private sector coalitions to advocate for recommendations to close governance gaps to neutralize the effects of corrosive capital entering the market and to strengthen the role of private sector-led initiatives that advance local solutions to economic and governance challenges.
CIPE and IDSCS will facilitate working group discussions between its local civil society partners, members of the business community and policy-makers. interaction. Based on this established communication, the working group members in cooperation with the IDSCS will draft policy identifying the national business communities’ top priorities to further promote the inclusion of the local companies in European supply chains, close governance gaps related to foreign investment and promote constructive capital.
CIPE and IDSCS will then promote the policy documents widely among its audiences through advocacy campaigns targeting the public officials, the general public and media. The outreach campaigns will serve to increase awareness of the corrosive capital among their target audiences, including the public, and to amplify the issues and recommendations highlighted in the analyses of corrosive capital conducted under the framework of the working group. The outputs of the project will be disseminated at workshops in Germany in 2022 and final conference organized by CIPE which will take place in a capital city in the Western Balkan region.
Project related events
Videographic: Stock of foreign direct investments in North Macedonia (1997 – 2021)
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IDSCS organized the conference “Promoting Constructive Capital in North Macedonia”
22.10.2022The Institute for Democracy organized the conference "Promoting Constructive Capital in...
Integrating the Western Balkan companies into European Supply Chains
05.10.2022Western Europe is the key trading partner of the Western...
Foreign Direct Investment Screening Mechanism in North Macedonia – Why and How?
05.10.2022The ultimate goal for North Macedonia is to become a...
Implications of the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism on North Macedonia
05.10.2022In 2005, the EU implemented the world’s largest carbon-pricing system...
IDSCS attends the 2022 CELIS Forum on Investment Screening
02.06.2022Representatives from the Institute for Democracy (IDSCS) are attending the...
Video: European Supply Chain disruptions and nearshoring opportunities in the Western Balkans
30.09.2021Supply Chain disruptions related to Covid-19 and over-dependence on China...
The reshaping of global supply chains: Western Balkans/EU perspectives
14.07.2021The reshaping of global supply chains: Western Balkans/EU perspectives
Video: How restructured supply chains can help both EU and the Western Balkans?
05.07.2021What if European companies diversify their supply base and move...
IDSCS and RCC co-organised a conference on benefits of diversification of European supply chains to the Western Balkans
04.06.2021The Institute for Democracy and the Regional Cooperation Council yesterday...
Global supply chains through the prism of Europeanization of the Western Balkans
25.05.2021Global supply chains through the prism of Europeanization of the...
Western Balkans economic integration – why it is needed?
05.05.2021Western Balkans economic integration – why it is needed?
Time to move to the Western Balkans: How diversification of global supply chains can benefit EU resilience
22.04.2021Time to move to the Western Balkans: How diversification of...
Podcast: Hustled Into a Dead End Chinese Corrosive Capital in North Macedonia
21.10.2020Podcast: Hustled Into a Dead End Chinese Corrosive Capital in...
Hustled Into a Dead End: The Delusional Belief In Chinese Corrosive Capital for the Construction of North Macedonia’s Highways
29.09.2020This research paper examines trade relations and economic engagement between...
Corrosive capital flows are threat for the fragile democracies in the Western Balkans
29.09.2020The Institute for Democracy organised online conference “Corrosive capital's threat...
Hustled Into a Dead End: The Delusional Belief In Chinese Corrosive Capital for the Construction of North Macedonia’s Highways
28.09.2020Hustled Into a Dead End: The Delusional Belief In Chinese...
Video: Kichevo – Ohrid highway: Cheap loans, yet expensive construction
11.08.2020Video: Kichevo-Ohrid highway: Cheap loans, yet expensive construction https://youtu.be/GhO9-GOfkYc
„Quick” and „cheap” loans for expensive and aggravated capital project implementation
11.08.2020Concluding direct agreements on capital infrastructure projects without public bidding,...