impact investing

SIM TIG Week: Will Impact Investing Fulfill Its Development Promise? by Robert Picciotto

I’m Robert Picciotto, director general of the Independent Evaluation Group at the World Bank from 1992 to 2002. I oversaw evaluation there and in its sister institution, the International Finance Corporation, which uses equity finance to promote private sector development. Evaluators charged with assessing the growing impact of the private sector in the social sphere …

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Veronica Olazabal and Karim Harji on Market-Based Approaches to Poverty Alleviation: Ways to Engage as an Evaluator

Hi, Veronica Olazabal, senior associate director of evaluation at The Rockefeller Foundation here with Karim Harji, director at Purpose Capital. As many of you already know, market-based approaches to poverty alleviation are gaining traction across the social sector. A range of innovative strategies are being used to finance these initiatives, including impact investing—an approach to …

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