future of social investment
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Future of Social Investment
Prince Wasajja Jamil
MISSION
• To become the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion, and respect for the environment by the year…..
social investment strategy
• invest in the human capital• Human capital policies• differentiate between ‘varieties of social
investment• need to combine social policies with
policies that promote organisationalchange.
• promoting competitiveness and growth, employment and quality of jobs.
The MAJOR QUESTIONS …..
• what kind of new strategies should be implemented to recover stronger growth, more and better jobs and more equality and social cohesion.
How can we handle….
• Deregulated financial markets, mobile global capital, environmental concerns and the threats of climate change are all part of a new context that calls into question past policy paradigms
• The current global economic crisis increasing uncertainties and pressures on governments as well as ordinary people.
• The consequences are difficult to overestimate, urgent to address the social agenda.
Let us ask ourselves
• What have been the successes and failures of the social investment so far?
• Where are the most important policy gaps to be found and how can they be filled?
Solutions?
DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOCIAL INVESTMENT MARKET• Microfinance moving beyond grant-
funding into offering opportunities for social investors.
• investments that are diverse in terms of social mission, structure and risk-reward profile.
• Innovative new funds from venture philanthropy to mission driven funds seeking market levels of financial return.
And what about Politics?
• credibility and authority with policy-makers across the political spectrum.
Social websites.???
• The available free social websites like; Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Netlog, Myspace, etc can be utilized to formulate a social network & a discussion platform across the spectrum.
The end
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