SOCIAL impactECONOMETRICSDoes rising inequality provide incentives for individuals to work harder and invest? Or does it hamper economic growth? This article reviews the now-extensive literature on the subject. It starts by outlining some of the social impacts of recent increases in inequality, ...
The same report introduced the three pillars or principles of environmental, social and economic sustainability, also known as ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance). These criteria are the standards used for assessing the impact and sustainability of a company's activities. They have been divided ...
While migration has always been part of human history, the proportion of displaced people has grown rapidly in the last decade, and now exceeds 1% of the world’s population1. Due to political instability, armed conflicts, persecution, demographic change, economic deprivation and severe effects of...
Bridging literature on whiteness and racialization with theories on habitus, I argue that white antiracist organizations act as incubators for white people to learn the “high culture” of the racial justice field, which is domin...
income disparity, and gender inequality grow more apparent, there are increasing opportunities to leverage capital to pursue returns both on paper and among real communities in need. Yet this excitement has led to an explosion of impact investing funds in the space that are...
In order to impact more women, Impact Investing Exchange (IIX) created the award-winningWomen’s Livelihood Bond™ 1– the world’s first impact investment product focused on women to be listed on a stock exchange and quoted on Bloomberg. The debt security itself is an innovative financial ...
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Third, in neighborhoods with more Latina/x/o residents, the impact of income is reversed. In these neighborhoods, a greater impact was observed in the lower-income neighborhoods. This finding clarifies the previous two: While greater neighborhood incomes are linked to more climate change-induced ...
Social inequality is marked in all Mainland Southeast Asian early states • Intensive rice cultivation employing irrigation provided the economic foundation for early state formation and social inequality • The quest for elite status was pervasive • The impact of climate change affected mostly inla...
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