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ESG Is Not Impact Investing and Impact Investing Is Not ESG

Stanford Social Innovation

If you find yourself using the terms ESG and impact investing interchangeably, you’re not alone. This group would go on to found the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) , the leading network of practitioners promoting the infrastructure, research, and education around impact investing.

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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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Private Equity Firms Are Paving the Way to a More Sustainable Future 

Richard Matthews

In recent years, impact investing has become mainstream and private equity (PE) firms are playing a key role. Despite being dismissed by some as “woke capitalism”, impact investing is a trend that is here to stay. PE firms have helped to grow the popularity of impact investing.

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This Week’s People Moves: New Engagement Head for Federated Hermes

Chris Hall

Narina Mnatsakanian has been appointed in the newly created role of Head of Impact Investing at UBS Asset Management. In her new role, Mnatsakanian will be responsible for expanding the firm’s impact investing offering, research and impact measurement capabilities.

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When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption

Stanford Social Innovation

In this sense, many international development philanthropies are neglecting the most powerful route to prosperity: productive employment in a thriving economy. Around 70 percent of the reduction in child mortality in developing countries between 1950 and 2018 would be expected based only on those countries’ income gains during that period.

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Turn off the Engines 

Chris Hall

His own system change model – developed over the past two decades – has three categories: traditional ESG, mid-level system change and high-level system change. Unilever scores well. They’ve been a long-term ESG leader. Those fixed laws of nature define and control life on this planet.