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The Hague Framework

November 4, 2011 - The Hague Framework is based on two meetings which convened around 70 senior representatives from across the development world [see appendix A in full report]. The meetings held in March and June 2011 were hosted respectively by Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and FMO (The Dutch Development Agency) and the Tallberg Forum resulting in the Tallberg Declaration. Please click below to access the content.

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Video Interviews with leaders at the Tällberg Forum 2011

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Creative capital comes from Main Street

September 27, 2011 - Michael Brownrigg

In basic economics, a company uses two inputs – capital and labor – to take raw materials and convert them into finished goods for sale.  In the last century, a great deal of effort was put into making labor more productive through education, training, machinery, and information technology.  Whether on the shop floor or in the Board Room, labor became much more valuable.

By contrast, much less effort was put into making capital more productive, and what efforts existed were largely confined to Wall Street.

How the market can turbo charge the Social Impact Bond

September 6, 2011 - Arthur Woods - The ‘for profit’/’not for profit’ paradigm is failing to deliver. But injecting some legal innovation into the embryonic social impact bond could trigger a significant growth spurt in the way capital and private sector solutions are driven towards solving social causes.

The Social Impact Bond (SIB) works in the same way as the International Finance Facility for Immunisation, originally proposed by the UK government in 2003. This structure captured future government cash flows from future aid budgets to change the incentive structure for scale.

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