Green Bonds and Land Conservation: A New Investment Landscape?
Green bonds are experiencing explosive growth, but are they a useful new financing tool to bridge conservation funding shortfalls or just the latest chapter in greenwashing?
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Socially responsible investing that produces both financial and social returns (more)
Across the Returns Continuum
Omidyar Network has built a framework for pursuing investment opportunities that takes into account not only firm-level impact but also market-level impact.
Toward the Efficient Impact Frontier
At Root Capital, leaders are using ideas from mainstream financial analysis to calibrate the role that subsidies play in their investing practice. Includes magazine extras.
Impact Investing and the Pursuit of Social Equity
There’s great potential for impact investing to decrease income equality in the United States, but for that to happen, investors need to pay more attention to how they structure their investments.
Accountability: The Golden Opportunity in Impact Investing
Why investors need to integrate rights and accountability into development finance, and how they can begin.
Social Impact Bonds: What’s in a Name?
Why so-called social impact bonds should be renamed—and re-formed—as debt securities.
What Every Good Microfinance Business Should Track and Why
Many microfinance impact investors are not monitoring the social components of the financial service providers (FSPs) they finance—but doing so can make a substantial difference to business success.
Investing in Communities Affected by Conflict and Crises
How the private sector, governments, and others can use impact investing to better support sustainable social change in humanitarian emergencies.