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Finance for Impact: the New Era of Sustainable Finance
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023This chapter addresses the topic of the challenges that sustainable fi-nance is currently facing under the spotlight of the criticism and the scrutiny sur-rounding ESG investing, as it does not create a meaningful impact on environmen-tal and societal challenges.
Costanza Consolandi, Andrea Roncella
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2021
After reading Chapters 19– 21, you may be asking yourself why? Why would you want to link the cost and distribution of capital to the achievement of social or environmental goals? Doesn’t that just make things more complicated? You aren’t wrong. It can make things very complicated (sometimes unnecessarily so).
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After reading Chapters 19– 21, you may be asking yourself why? Why would you want to link the cost and distribution of capital to the achievement of social or environmental goals? Doesn’t that just make things more complicated? You aren’t wrong. It can make things very complicated (sometimes unnecessarily so).
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Port Investment: Profitability, Economic Impact and Financing
Research in Transportation Economics, 2006Abstract Port investment is a key issue in modern port economics with respect to planning port development, financing and assessing the return on investment. This chapter addresses some of the features related to port investment, starting from the evaluation of the main paradigms that characterize the port industry from a global point of view, and ...
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Financing Dies in Darkness? The Impact of Newspaper Closures on Public Finance
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018Abstract We examine how local newspaper closures affect public finance outcomes for local governments. Following a newspaper closure, municipal borrowing costs increase by 5 to 11 basis points, costing the municipality an additional $650,000 per issue. This effect is causal and not driven by underlying economic conditions.
Pengjie Gao, Chang Lee, Dermot Murphy
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Impacts of Development and Infrastructure Financing
Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 1991The effects of growth generated by development impact a community in a number of ways. Increases in population and commercial activity place additional requirements on the infrastructure and service capabilities of a community as well as increasing revenues.
William B. Moore, Thomas Muller
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Social Finance and Impact Investing
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012Social finance and impact investing are relatively new terms in the banking sector that are still a niche but growing rapidly. In this paper we will explain the meaning of social finance, social banking, impact investment and microfinance. Furthermore we will present examples of successful institutions in this field.
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