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Three Trends Transforming Impact Investing

Chris Hall

Krisztina Tora, Chief Market Development Officer at the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment, outlines three key areas that show great potential to improve outcomes at scale for people and the planet. 2022 was a landmark year for impact investing. billion overall in 2022, according to Tameo.

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The Next Generation of DFI Technical Assistance: Why it’s Time for Development Finance Institutions to Take a Standardised Approach

James Militzer

The past two decades have seen remarkable expansion in the scope, scale and aspiration of development finance institution technical assistance (DFI TA ). In general, DFIs deploy TA alongside their investments in businesses, to reduce risk, increase or safeguard impact, increase value, and create a better enabling environment.

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The Power of Results-Based Funding for Poverty Alleviation: What We Learned from Africa’s First-Ever Development Impact Bond – and What’s Next

James Militzer

Several years ago, before the pandemic, we wrote in NextBillion about the potential for an innovative financing model – development impact bonds – to reduce poverty and make aid more effective. Agency For International Development’s Development Innovation Ventures (USAID DIV) and the U.K. Paying for Results.

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Impact Initiative to Unite Companies, Investors

Chris Hall

GIIN to co-develop new tools to help companies measure impact and optimise capital. . The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) has launched a corporate investing initiative to support companies looking to develop impact investing strategies and partner with impact investors to achieve their sustainability goals. .

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Northwestern Mutual Sustainability and Social Impact: Reducing Our Environmental Impact

3BL Media

Socioeconomically responsible investments that promote goals such as affordable housing, healthcare access, economic development through education and social infrastructure projects in underdeveloped areas, and success for businesses with owners from underrepresented groups. Affordable housing.

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Top 10 Business Sustainability Issues of 2023

B the Change

A corporate professional from Asia asked: “How can developing countries like ours access sustainable innovations?” Get Started: The Innovation North Compass shows how to tailor sustainable innovation. Social sustainability requires considering their needs. Sustainable Finance 10. Location matters as well.

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No Time to Rest in Passive ESG Market

Chris Hall

To take one UK-based example, when FTSE4Good was launched in 2001, a pioneering benchmark for socially responsible investing (SRI), the focus was on carbon emissions. Looking to the likely next developments in benchmarking, FTSE Russell’s Jones said: “The debate on climate change has become more sophisticated.