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New report: Social Impact Bonds could boost development and job creation in South Africa
Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) hold tremendous potential for government to increase effective support for struggling entrepreneurs in South Africa, according to a new report presented to the National Treasury, the Jobs Fund, and the dti.
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South Africa’s Treasury Investigating Financing Social Bonds
The treasury is looking into the feasibility of using an experimental financing mechanism, social impact bonds, to help boost small businesses and job creation
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‘Pay for success’ social-impact bonds help train ex-convicts
Social-impact bonds offer investors a more direct connection between the dollars they invest and the impact they have on a social problem.
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Everything You Need to Know About Social Impact Bonds
In the non-profit and social sector the "new, new thing" is social impact bonds, also known as pay for success contracts. Social impact bonds bring together four parties – private investors, a knowledgeable intermediary, a government body and a social service provider.
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Open development and social impact bonds: rethinking healthcare delivery
By incentivising investment through payment on results, and by making information open, local entrepreneurs can fill the gaps and help deliver much needed services
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A Missing Opportunity for Investment: Bringing the Bedroom to the Boardroom
During SOCAP 2012, impact investing funds and social impact bonds were among mechanisms for bringing access to family planning to scale. But the first step is simply naming family planning as an impact investing priority. This requires moving the issue from the margins to the center of social causes.
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Impact Bonds: Boon or Boondoggle? Before We Hop on the Bandwagon, Let’s Scan the Road Ahead
Although there are many benefits to impact bonds – make no mistake – they are complicated to implement. Because they are new tools and because it is in the interests of all parties involved to reduce risk, only strong programs with proven statistical success are likely to be supported by a social or development impact bond.
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Goldman Sachs In Jail: Why Is Big Money Moving Into Social Impact Bonds?
The so-called "social-impact bond" investment at Rikers Island prison, the first of its kind for an American city, means any potential return for Goldman hinges on the success of a program that will educate, train and counsel inmates aged between 16 and 18.
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