Determining the reach of responsible investment is an imprecise art. Various attempts to quantify or qualify the field have involved benchmarking relative to mainstream investment by asking investors to estimate percentages of assets invested in responsible vehicles, counting up and categorizing … [Read more...]
Putting Dollars to Work in the Community: 9 things local government can do to harness private capital for public good
This paper is the work of David Wood and Katie Grace of the Initiative for Responsible Investment at the Harvard Kennedy School and Robin Hacke of Living Cities. We appreciate the feedback of numerous colleagues and leaders in the community development field who have participated in our research, … [Read more...]
Policy for Impact Investing in Sustainable Cities
One of the priorities of this June’s Rio+20 conference in Rio de Janeiro alongside more traditional sustainability topics like water and energy is cities. According to the UN, about half the world’s population today lives in cities, and the proportion of city dwellers is due to increase … [Read more...]
The Importance of A Strong Foundation: Impact Investing Policy in Africa
Just like any other type of investment, impact investing does not operate in a vacuum. Environmental factors like culture and policy shape the investments that we make, from investable opportunities to the type and supply of capital available. Figuring out the role of policy in impact investing can … [Read more...]
The Capital Absorption Capacity of Places: A Research Agenda and Framework
This working paper is the beginning stages of the creation of a new framework for understanding capital absorption capacity – understood as the ability of communities to effectively use investment capital to serve pressing needs. This research initiative is focused on understanding how an … [Read more...]
Impact at Scale: Policy Innovation for Institutional Investment with Social and Environmental Benefit
This is the second report published by the Impact Investing Policy Collaborative (PCV Insight and the Initiative for Responsible Investment at Harvard University, supported by The Rockefeller Foundation). Impact at Scale is not a roadmap. The report does not attempt to make concrete policy … [Read more...]
Impact Investing: A Framework for Policy Design and Analysis
This is the first report published by the Impact Investing Policy Collaborative, a partnership between PCV InSight and the Initiative for Responsible Investment at Harvard University, which is supported by The Rockefeller Foundation. There is no market from which government is completely absent, … [Read more...]
