The local and international track record of social investment funds and social impact bonds is far from convincing. A better-resourced public sector would be a simpler solution.
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Two social impact bonds that have concluded in South Africa showed that they got innovation going where it was desperately needed.
Since the first “climate awareness bond” was issued in 2007, the green-bond market has flourished. But how can investors judge their risk and effectiveness?
These partnerships between investors, governments and nonprofits are a new way to pay for programs and services that help people in need and address intractable problems like mass incarceration.
Research shows that ‘impact investing’ not only delivers good financial returns, but it supports a great many social and environmental programs in Australia.
As a family and marriage researcher, I have conducted a lot of research into what makes relationships work. I tend to think about relationships in terms of couples. When I was appointed the senior administrator…
The World Economic Forum reports there is widespread confusion regarding what impact investing promises and what it ultimately delivers. Some estimate it is a market worth between US$450 billion and US$650…
The NSW Treasury’s current trial of social benefit bonds is attracting a lot of attention, including a session devoted to bonds and other social enterprise innovations at the Economic Society of Australia’s…
In April last year I wrote in The Conversation about an innovative financial investment mechanism called Social Impact Bonds, that was designed to address some of society’s wicked problems by engaging…
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Professor of Economics, Public Policy and Public Administration, and International Affairs, Associate Director, Trachtenberg School, Co-Director: George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center, George Washington University
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Senior lecturer, UNSW
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Professor in Innovation and Impact, UNSW
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Assistant Professor of Management, School of Business Administration, Harrisburg campus, Penn State
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Professor and Shapiro Chair of Public Policy and Public Administration, Trachtenberg School, George Washington University
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Professor, Human Development and Family Science, The Ohio State University
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Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, University of Oxford
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Professor of Economics and Theology., Alphacrucis College
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Director - Centre for Social Impact
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Research Fellow, Centre for Social Impact, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Human Geography, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Researcher, Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP); University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor of Finance, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano