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A new video has been added to CIPE’s YouTube channel. It features an interview with Igor Munteanu, Executive Director of the Institute for Development and Social Initiatives IDIS Viitorul in Moldova. His organization has been working with CIPE on creating a National Business Agenda (NBA), the first such document drafted by the Moldovan private sector. NBA is a vital tool for the business community to encourage investment and stimulate business activity and economic growth. Developing an agenda mobilizes the business community to use its skills to effect public policy reform by setting legislative and regulatory priorities and clearly communicating them to policymakers. NBAs identify laws and regulations that hinder business activity. They also offer concrete recommendations and...

A national business agenda (NBA) is a vital tool for the business community to encourage investment and stimulate business activity and economic growth. NBAs identify laws that impede the efforts of the private sector to advance businesses and effect economic growth. They also identify concrete recommendations and reforms to remove these barriers and improve the business climate. Developing an NBA is a democratic process that unites the business community, helps them to set common priorities, and provides a vehicle to communicate those priorities to policymakers. By doing so, the business community plays a key role in achieving public policy reform. To learn more about the NBA process, take a look at CIPE’s guidebook. CIPE has worked with countries as diverse as Egypt, Afghanistan,...