The U.S. government has a critical role to play in helping to expand and support impact investing — but how can this have the greatest effect?
A new report published this week by the U.S. National Advisory Board on Impact Investing lays out a series of steps the government could take to help promote impact investing and potentially make available additional, innovative development financing.
Check out the above Slideshow above outlining 10 of the key recommendations outlined by the NAB report, entitled “Private Capital Public Good: How smart federal policy can galvanize impact investing — and why it’s urgent.”
Want to know more? Below is my video report from the launch event, including comments from a few U.S. government representatives.
This story is part of a series on impact investing. For more, check out our Storify page on “Impact Investing 2.0: The evolving social finance landscape” and tweet @DevexImpact using #impinv.
About the author
Adva Saldinger@AdvaSal
Adva Saldinger is a Senior Reporter at Devex where she covers development finance, as well as U.S. foreign aid policy. Adva explores the role the private sector and private capital play in development and authors the weekly Devex Invested newsletter bringing the latest news on the role of business and finance in addressing global challenges. A journalist with more than 10 years of experience, she has worked at several newspapers in the U.S. and lived in both Ghana and South Africa.
