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The social impact bond is a non-tradeable version of social policy bonds, first conceived by Ronnie Horesh, a New Zealand economist, in 1988. [13] Since then, the idea of the social impact bond has been promoted and developed by a number of agencies and individuals in an attempt to address the paradox that investing in prevention of social and health problems saves the public sector money, but ...
A list of companies, governmental and quasi-governmental agencies (government-sponsored enterprises), and/or non-profit organizations involved in the various economic and financial crises of 2007–2008.
Notable examples of social finance instruments are social impact bonds and social impact funds. [9] Since the 2007–2008 financial crisis, the social finance industry has been experiencing a period of accelerated growth as shifts in investor sentiment have increased demand for ethically responsible investment alternatives by retail investors.
Social Finance helped develop the first Social Impact Bond project in the world in the UK in 2010, [6] a six-year social impact bond pilot scheme run by Social Finance to see around 3,000 short-term prisoners from Peterborough prison, serving less than 12 months, receiving intensive interventions both in prison and in the community. Funding ...
Social impact bonds (also called Pay for Success bonds) are "a public-private partnership which funds effective social services through a performance-based contract." [9] They operate over a fixed period of time, but they do not offer a fixed rate of return. Repayment to investors is contingent upon specified social outcomes being achieved. [10]
The World Bank has regularly failed to live up to its own policies for protecting people harmed by projects it finances. The World Bank and its private-sector lending arm, the International Finance Corp., have financed governments and companies accused of human rights violations such as rape, murder and torture.
The Portland Trust was founded in London in 2003 by Sir Ronald Cohen, co-founder and former chairman of the private equity firm Apax Partners, pioneering philanthropist, venture capitalist, and private equity investor, and chair of the Social Impact Investment Taskforce established under the UK's presidency of the G8, together with Sir Harry ...
The Social Impact Incentives (SIINC) model is a blended finance instrument introduced for the first time in 2016. [1] In the SIINC model, enterprises are provided with time-limited premium payments for achieving social impact, [ 2 ] thus aligning profitability with their social impact and enabling them to attract growth capital. [ 3 ]