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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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The Social Cost of Public Finance

Journal of Political Economy, 1977
This paper examines the implications for fiscal policy of systematic differences between (social) rates of return on private investment and savings. We show that the social discount rate lies between these divergent rates of return, that the controversy between this result and Marglin's stems entirely from different treatments of depreciation, and that
Sjaastad, Larry A, Wisecarver, Daniel L
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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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Financing Social Enterprise: Is the Crowd the Answer?

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
How does a business that wants “do good” while doing well finance its operations? In particular, how does a business of that kind find investors who understand and are committed to both its nonfinancial and financial objectives? This chapter addresses issues at the intersection of corporate governance and corporate finance with those questions in mind.
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