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A Measured Approach

Chris Hall

Sir Ronald Cohen, veteran venture capitalist and impact investing guru, explains why he believes we’re on the verge of an impact revolution. Last month, the IFVI issued its draft methodology for impact accounting, building on the work of Harvard Business School’s Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative , which Cohen also chaired.

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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

A 2013-2015 randomized evaluation of the model conducted by Innovations for Poverty Action in rural Uganda found that it reduced poverty, improved subjective well-being and had an impressive cost-benefit ratio, particularly compared to other poverty-graduation programs evaluated at scale.