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Viewpoint: The Racist Double Standards of International Development
The claim that we are making 'wonderful progress' against global poverty is a fallacy based on a colonial mindset.
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- Impact Assessment
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With $715B in AUM, Impact Investors Stay the Course, Despite the Pandemic
Amid a backdrop of a global pandemic and protests against brutal treatment of African Americans by police and systemic racism, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) just produced its 10th annual survey of the market.
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- Coronavirus, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Investing
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Viewpoint: Africa Doesn’t Need More Development Aid, It Needs More Capitalism
In Asia, the fight against poverty and hunger has been so effective because so many Asian countries have implemented capitalist reforms. In China alone— thanks to the partial introduction of private property rights and free-market economics—the proportion of people living in extreme poverty has fallen from 88% in 1981 to below 1% today.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press release: Jed Emerson releases his new book, “The Purpose of Capital”
Emerson’s analysis challenges investors to expand their understanding of the purpose of capital and fuel a broader, deeper impact investing movement that shifts finance from harming to healing.
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- Investing
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Viewpoint: Are B Corps An Elite Charade For Changing The World?
Giridharadas’ thesis is a compelling critique of what he calls “MarketWorld”—a set of beliefs that have overtaken our culture with the idea that “if you really want to change the world, you must rely on the techniques, resources, and personnel of capitalism,” ignoring the possibility that capitalism itself, as it is largely practiced today, might be at least one cause of the problems we are seeking to solve.
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