AQ Top 5 líderes de la igualdad de género: Susana García-Robles
La inversionista que ayuda a las mujeres a perseguir sus sueños.
AQ Top 5 Champions of Gender Equality: Susana García-Robles
The investor helping women go after their dreams.
Root Capital: A Case Study in Impact Investing
Throughout the developing world, the rural poor—approximately 75 percent of the more than 2.7 billion people who live on less than $2 a day—are often isolated from formal markets. However, impact investing that generates social or environmental benefits and financial returns presents a new opportunity to address rural poverty with market-based solutions. A recent study … Read more
When the Private Sector Isn’t Enough
In March 2011, the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) announced a call for investment proposals for impact investing. OPIC, the U.S. development finance agency, had set aside $250 million of its $14 billion portfolio for investment in funds that aimed to combine positive social and environmental impacts in the emerging markets that OPIC operates … Read more
Not So Fast: The Realities of Impact Investing
At the beginning of 2010, the Indian microfinance sector was a hotspot for impact investors. The promise of impact investing could be seen in the number of investors lining up to participate in the initial public offering (IPO) of SKS Microfinance. SKS had ballooned from 603,000 borrowers in fiscal year 2007 to 6.8 million in … Read more
