Does Impact Investment Work?
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In this episode, Lyndsey moderates a debate between Patrick Dunne and Clint Bartlett.  Patrick and Clint share their opinions regarding the effectiveness of Impact Investment in Africa and other related topics from their different roles in the impact investment ecosystem. Conversation Highlights (with timestamps) What is impact investment? (2:10) What kind of structure is most effective for impact investing? (10:00) Challenges finding good impact investing project in Africa (22:20) When an impact project (education) does not work, where does the education project go, how to be sustainable? (31:00) Top reasons for impact investment failure? (38:00) How to bridge social impact and commercial impact (50:00) Bad experience shared by Patrick (61:00) Will recently issued UK stewardship code and stewardship code in South Africa help making impact investing more efficient? (65:00) Guest Contact Information Patrick Dunne Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickdunne2/ Twitter: patrickedunne Email: [email protected] Websites: leapcc.org.uk  (Leap) warwick.ac.uk/warwickinafrica  (Warwick in Africa) Clint Bartlett Email: [email protected] Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clintdbartlett/ Publication: https://nextbillion.net/risk-perception-funding-gap/
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