Month: September 2015

  • Social Impact Bonds and systemic risk: a preliminary analysis

    Social Impact Bonds and systemic risk: a preliminary analysis

    Social investment has become a new and widely-embraced approach to increasing funding in the social services sector.  Associated with it is an anticipated change in the way the not-for-profit sector operates, moving it to more explicitly business and managerial practice.  It is hoped that by engaging commercial incentives, and by using commercial principles and mechanisms,…