Impact Investment

Can Impact Investment be an Opportunity for Environmental Projects?

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Impact investments are investments aimed to generate positive, measurable environmental and social impact with a financial return. The growth of the impact investment market provides capital to solve the world’s most challenging sectors such as renewable energy, agriculture, conservation, education and healthcare. Impact investing challenges the long-held views that environmental and social issues should be […]

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The Effect of Impact Investing on Sustainable Development

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By Qingcheng Li, Yutong Liu, and Bing Chen “The current impact investing is washing along the shores of a bifurcated world still organized to separate profit-making from social and environmental problem-solving.” Antony Bugg-Levine, CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, said. In 2007, the term “impact investing” was coined by the Rockefeller Foundation, which is new to both the investing

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Through the lens of E-Naira: Looking at the future of the Central Bank Digital Currency

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With the inception of technology, growing opportunities, and the financial incentives associated with the digital technology; most central banks, experts, local and international agencies were compelled to explore possible means of payment that’ll be more efficient, easier, better, faster, and universally acceptable in this era.

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The dilemma of work and family for rural women in China: how do government and enterprises address it?

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Among the rolling hills of Ceheng County in Guizhou province, China, resides the ethnic minority group of Bouyei. A Bouyei woman named Li Dingmei traveled over 1,500 kilometers to work in Zhejiang Province when she was only 14 years old.

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Social Entrepreneurship Towards a Better Normal: Catching Up with Erwin Lizarondo

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The pandemic has brought its fair share of pros and cons in all spheres of our lives. Though the coronavirus has brought downfall for most establishments, so is not the case with Social Enterprises. Wondering how Social Enterprises (SEs) have been thriving during such a hard-hitting time of change?

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A Closer Look into Thailand’s Digital Economy: Success and Challenges

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In the digital era, the digital economy is emerging exponentially because of its dynamic nature and the transformational power of digital technologies. It plays an important role in speeding up global economic development, promoting productivity of existing industries and achieving inclusive and sustainable growth.

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