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Capital and the Common Good: How Innovative Finance Is Tackling the World´s Most Urgent Problems
Georgia Levenson Keohane
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Description for Capital and the Common Good: How Innovative Finance Is Tackling the World´s Most Urgent Problems
Hardback. Series: Columbia Business School Publishing. Num Pages: 264 pages, 12 figures. BIC Classification: JFF; KCN; KFFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.
Despite social and economic advances around the world, poverty and disease persist, exacerbated by the mounting challenges of climate change, natural disasters, political conflict, mass migration, and economic inequality. While governments commit to addressing these challenges, traditional public and philanthropic dollars are not enough. Here, innovative finance has shown a way forward: by borrowing techniques from the world of finance, we can raise capital for social investments today. Innovative finance has provided polio vaccines to children in the DRC, crop insurance to farmers in India, pay-as-you-go solar electricity to Kenyans, and affordable housing and transportation to New Yorkers. It has ... Read more
Despite social and economic advances around the world, poverty and disease persist, exacerbated by the mounting challenges of climate change, natural disasters, political conflict, mass migration, and economic inequality. While governments commit to addressing these challenges, traditional public and philanthropic dollars are not enough. Here, innovative finance has shown a way forward: by borrowing techniques from the world of finance, we can raise capital for social investments today. Innovative finance has provided polio vaccines to children in the DRC, crop insurance to farmers in India, pay-as-you-go solar electricity to Kenyans, and affordable housing and transportation to New Yorkers. It has ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Series
Columbia Business School Publishing
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231178020
SKU
V9780231178020
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About Georgia Levenson Keohane
Georgia Levenson Keohane is executive director of the Pershing Square Foundation. She is also a professor in the Social Enterprise Program at Columbia Business School and a senior fellow at New America Foundation. She is the author of Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century (2013).
Reviews for Capital and the Common Good: How Innovative Finance Is Tackling the World´s Most Urgent Problems
Capital and the Common Good shows we are living in a time where financial tools can expand to solve some of the world's most vexing problems. This book is packed with information and inspiration.
Robert J. Shiller, Nobel Laureate in Economics Georgia Levenson Keohane weaves together case studies from around the globe that illustrate the immense potential of market ... Read more
Robert J. Shiller, Nobel Laureate in Economics Georgia Levenson Keohane weaves together case studies from around the globe that illustrate the immense potential of market ... Read more