How to measure Impact: The Changing Status of Women with Microcredit
17 The Turkish Grameen Microfinance Program (TGMP), which has provided more than 1 billion 200 million TL microcredit to more than 200,000 women in total since it was fou…
Read More →How to measure Impact: Women Farmers Loan
11 As Etkiyap, we attach importance to the impact of the Women Farmers Loan project, realized in cooperation with Tekfen Foundation and TİSVA, which has been measured, m…
Read More →Gen Y and Z in Impact Investing
4 My willingness to work in the financial sector and having a life in line with development goals, driving public good have led me to the Masters program at Bocconi Univer…
Read More →Social Entrepreneurs are Driving the Change in this New World Economy
4 The world is facing an unprecedented rate of change where opportunities are often clouded by its more obvious vulnerabilities. The current pandemic proves how fragi…
Read More →It's Time for Big Finance to Fully Commit to Impact Investing. Here's How.
3 How do we make impact investing mainstream while preserving its essence – that is to generate intentional social and environmental impact as well as financial gain? A…
Read More →Sounding Good or Doing Good? A Skeptical Look at ESG: The View by Prof. Damodaran
3 As many hop onto the trend of ESG investing, contrarian views have appeared more recently. Professor Aswath Damodaran’s perspective on ESG in his article: ‘So…
Read More →Seize the Moment: The Road to Shareholder Capitalism
3 “We should seize this moment to ensure that stakeholder capitalism remains the new dominant model,” said Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chairman of World Ec…
Read More →Let's Not Be Sustainable…
5 We are still amidst the storm; the dust is still in the air and it is still too early to see clearly what awaits humanity at the end of the tunnel and maybe it is wiser to focus…
Read More →Impact Investing in the Concrete Jungle: Basis of a Business Proposition
3 Only a fraction of the urban social and environmental impact projects can leave the planning board. Here, the main issue is the lack of a sound business proposition. Th…
Read More →GSG Global Impact Summit 2020
< 1 The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) is going virtual – and truly global – with the GSG Global Impact Summit 2020 on September 9th, 10th a…
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