Recently, social enterprises have started exploring public markets and showing up on the radar of investment professionals, including those covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). ERISA has long required plan fiduciaries to "discharge [their] duties with respect to a plan ...
This research explores the effects of enhancing social credit on corporate investment, utilizing China's model city pilots for the Social Credit System Construction(SCSC) as a quasi-natural experiment. Our findings demonstrate that social credit improvement significantly increases enterprise investment levels...
This article examines the attempt by the UK Labour government to promote the supply of social enterprises in the market for health and social care services in England, through the Social Enterprise Investment Fund (SEIF), introduced in 2007. The article reports on research evaluating the ...
Asia is the birthplace of several successful and large Social Enterprises (SEs) such as Grameen Bank, BRAC and PDA. While extensively covered in the media, these entities are the exception rather than the norm. These SEs were, and some remain, lucky to receive unquestioned government and donor...
While teaching Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, Durreen wrote about the need for investment to fuel businesses that were uplifting communities and leading to sustainable development. Her writings led her to meeting with the Rockefeller Fo...
investment, market exchange, and profit maximization within the system of enslavement. Although historians have examined the role of enslaved labor in industrial concerns, they have largely ignored their role in the financing of these operations. Understanding the multiple ways that southerners were ...
reflecting its commitment to fostering communities and hope. Estrellado emphasized the multifaceted benefits of housing, which span health, sanitation, social cohesion, and the breaking of poverty cycles. Her experience underlines the significance of strategic and sustainable investment in housing to achieve...
BlueDot is a Toronto-based social benefit corporation that tracks and predicts the global spread of infectious diseases. Discover the right solution for your team The CB Insights tech market intelligence platform analyzes millions of data points on vendors, products, partnerships, and patents to help...
Enterprise Global News Applied Materials to set up collaborative engineering center in Bengaluru with $400Mn investment India’s semiconductor industry seems to be picking up investments in an accelerated… Soumyadeep Sarkar June 23, 2023 3 minute read...
The Bank of America-backed Growth Impact Fund, developed by Big Issue Invest and UnLtd, announces its second investment. Doing What Really Matters (DWRM), a social enterprise that works with universities to offer degree courses to facilitate prisoner rehabilitation, has received ...