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Insightful Reports

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EBBC and yourSRI collaborate to show potential for investing in biodiversity conservation

EBBC (European Business and Biodiversity Campaign) and yourSRI, one of the leading online directories of investments for sustainability have partnered in a collaborative effort to show the private sector the importance of biodiversity protection, and to motivate them to invest in the same. Read more here.

August 31, 2012

Financing business skills for Impact Enterprises

One of the main barriers in the impact investment field is the lack of core business skills in social enterprises which want to scale. This prevents impact investors from investing as well. This gap is filled by business development skills incubators and accelerators. Read more here.

August 31, 2012

Inspired by the Olympics

In this post, the author compares how the costs of each medal in the Olympics, for different kinds of sports respectively, impact investment and socially responsible investing has companies, investors and other stakeholders demanding in numerical amounts the impact of their investments, for their respective philanthropic projects. Read more here.

August 31, 2012

‘Waiting for Godot’ – Time to adopt impact investing as a choice

In this article, the author related the story of two protagonists consciously making the choice of waiting for a mysterious man called Godot (Samuel Beckett’s play) and how they deliberately killed time doing so. The author draws parallel to how impact investment remains a niche in the investment scenario, and […]

August 31, 2012

The advent of social impact bonds

Social Impact bonds, also called ‘Pay-for-success’ bonds have been widely successful in the past in the UK. This has prompted US (the recent Goldman Sachs funded programme against recidivism in Massachusetts), Israel, Australia and Canada to launch their version of the Social Impact Bonds. However what constitutes these bonds? Read […]

August 31, 2012

An EU Worth Defending – Beyond Austerity to Social Investment and Inclusive Growth

NSRs (National Social Reports) are thought of as key instruments in forming European Employment Strategy. This report assesses the progress on delivery on poverty reduction, and on the other key social employment and education targets of Europe 2020, while recommendations listed in the same feature social investment package launches as […]

August 31, 2012

India: Low cost generic drugs in store in Jharkhand state

The health minister of the Indian state of Jharkhand recently inaugurated medicine stores at two hospitals in the state, where the sale of low-cost generic drugs will be made, to make treatment available for the poor. Read more here.

August 31, 2012

India: Ozone pharma sells its hypertension drugs at INR 2 to the poor

A Delhi based pharmaceutical company, Ozone Pharmaceuticals Limited has come up with a ‘uniform’ pricing strategy which makes available drugs to counter act chronic diseases like hypertension, high cholesterol and diabetes for a sum of mere INR2. Read more here.

August 31, 2012

GE Healthcare India looking to drive innovation in devices locally

Global medical equipment major GE Healthcare in India is looking to drive product development from locations which are closer to the end user market. This is being done to be better able to cater to the needs of the large underserved population for ‘event-based’ care. Read more here.