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Tracking decarbonization of multilateral development banks' electricity generation investments.

open access: yesCell Rep Sustain
Egli F   +5 more
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Social Finance

2015
Abstract Social finance is now a multibillion dollar market that encompasses ethical investment (including finance for green businesses), community investment to support economic development in deprived areas, ‘impact investing’, investment in developing countries, co-operative and mutual finance, along with a wide range of initiatives ...
Alex Nicholls, Jed Emerson
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Delineating social finance

International Review of Financial Analysis, 2019
Abstract This paper reviews social finance. Venture philanthropy, microfinance, crowdfunding and social impact bonds are financial and social innovations that reshape capital markets, the production of public goods, entrepreneurship and the fundamental principles of financial analysis.
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Financing social businesses

2015
The social sector has been thrilled at the sight of the global financial community bringing its formidable resources and capabilities to its rescue. Financiers were also thrilled to redeem themselves by using their skills to solve our world’s problems.
Olivier Kayser, Valeria Budinich
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Social Finance and Health

Across the globe, countries are struggling with growing pressures on publicly funded health systems and difficulties transitioning toward Universal Health Coverage (UHC). This situation is in the context of obstinate and widening health inequalities. New ways to fund health systems and improve health are needed. One potential response is social finance.
McHugh, Neil   +2 more
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Islamic finance as social finance

2015
Abstract This chapter explores the linkages between Islamic finance and social finance. The chapter opens with a brief overview of the history of finance to provide a context for some of the subsequent precepts of Islamic finance. Next, the most well-known prohibition in Islamic finance—the prohibition on charging interest—is reviewed ...
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