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Re-imagining Capitalism: Accounting for Externalities
At the Sankalp Summit 2012 last week in Mumbai, the opening plenary, “Reimaging Capitalism” set the tone for the following two days. The panel talked about the need to ‘reimagine’ capitalism, pushing us to conjure up creative definitions of how markets function and what they can do. What would it take to imagine markets being used as more than just a money-making tool?
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- Impact Assessment
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Rethinking the Role of Capital Markets in Enabling Social Progress
Earlier this week at theGlobal Philanthropy Forum, Tracy Palandjian, CEO of Social Finance, Inc., served on a panel discussion around the challenges and opportunities of impact investing. In the below interview with Tracy, we discussed her career trajectory, the first-ever social impact bond in the United Kingdom and its potential to be replicated in the United States, and much more.
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- Impact Assessment
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How the Poor Cope with Crisis
A study incorporating many grassroots voices examines how poor people in developing countries coped with the recent shock of higher food and fuel prices.
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- Impact Assessment
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Investing in Social Enterprise: Lessons from the 2012 Sankalp Summit
Imagine you have devoted the last three years of your life to coming up with a new innovative enterprise to meet the needs of the poor. You came up with the idea, worked tirelessly to prove the concept and put together the best team that you could find. Now imagine that you have 3 minutes to pitch years’ of work to a panel of impact investors who could help you take your business to the next level. This is exactly what a group of four budding social enterprises had to do at the Fourth Annual Sankalp Impact Investing Summit
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Perspective: Poverty, Health And Forced Eviction In The Slums Of Bangladesh
On April 4, one of the largest forceful slum evictions in Bangladesh’s history took place in Dhaka’s Korail bustee. Households, schools and shops within twenty meters of the road were bulldozed, with approximately 3,500 individuals affected.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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South Africa: Brazilians to Share Experiences On Beating Hunger
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini says sharing experiences with Brazil will help South Africa deal with the challenge of hunger.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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136 Firms, 19 Countries, GIIRS Releases First Impact Investing Analytics Report
The Global Impact Investing Rating System Ratings & Analytics has published the first impact investing industry report to provide comprehensive and verified data on social & environmental impact across a broad range of investments on a global scale. The inaugural GIIRS Quarterly Analytics Report provides a snapshot of key findings and trends in data collected from GIIRS rated companies & funds, covering sector, size and geography.
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- Impact Assessment
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Tools of the Trade: Building a Robust Deal Pipeline of Impact Companies in Emerging Economies (Part 1)
Investors in the impact investing space say they want to see more high quality deals and more companies with a successful investment track records that are quantifiably measuring impact. Apparently, billions of dollars of investment capital could be poised and ready if these three issues can be addressed
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- Education, Environment, Impact Assessment
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