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Inside the Quest to Measure the Impact of Impact Investing
This is the kind of valuation challenge impact investors have been grappling with for years. Purely financial investments come with an accepted methodology for measuring return on investment. But with investments in projects or organizations working to deliver social or environmental impact, there’s no shared accounting framework for measuring the value of what’s been achieved.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Inside the Quest to Measure the Impact of Impact Investing
How do you measure the impact of reliable weekly milk purchases on the lives of small-scale Indian dairy farmers? What if you need to compare that with the impact on American college students of courses about dating violence and sexual harassment? This is the kind of valuation challenge impact investors have been grappling with for years. Purely financial investments come with an accepted methodology for measuring return on investment. But with investments in projects or organizations working to deliver social or environmental impact, there’s no shared accounting framework for measuring the value of what’s been achieved.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Viewpoint: Can the Microcredit Model Be Improved?
Microcredit is frequently touted as an effective policy tool to fight global poverty. But studies suggest that the long-term impact on recipients’ lives is limited. Yale SOM’s Mushfiq Mobarak and the University of Chicago’s Vikas Dimble write that microcredit can help more people by modifying and extending its model.
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- Finance, Impact Assessment
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Press release: Cornerstone Capital Group Introduces New Framework to Measure Impact of Investments
The Cornerstone Access Impact Framework™ offers a new, proprietary approach to investing in alignment with the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Viewpoint: Learning from Financial Inclusion Research: What Should We Expect?
There is a real puzzle in the world of financial inclusion: Where’s the impact? The question is not unique to financial inclusion, but it is a particularly pressing one.
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- Finance, Impact Assessment
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Businesses ‘doing good’? Prove it
“It is a bit of a dark art, measuring impact,” Jessi Baker, founder and chief executive of Provenance, a British social enterprise that uses blockchain technology to make supply chains more transparent, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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- Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment, Technology
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Bill Gates tweeted out a chart and sparked a huge debate about global poverty
I think the basic fact that we’ve made progress in recent decades is important. Politics and the global economy are dismal places, especially if you only see them through the lens of news coverage. It’s easy to become fatalistic.
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- Impact Assessment
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Major funds launch toolkit to help investors measure SDG impact
A dashboard developed by CISL's Investment Leaders Group, including PIMCO, Union Bancaire Privée and Zurich Insurance provides metrics to assess corporate social and environmental impact.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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