News and Views

  • The bioeconomy, AI and and inclusive recycling: ten takeaways from Latimpacto's 2024 Impact Minds conference

    How is politics influencing impact investing in Latin America? How can the nascent impact investing movement grow its presence in the region? We report from Impact Minds in Oaxaca, Mexico, to answer these questions and more.

  • UK impact investments reach £77bn at the end of 2023, Impact Investing Institute reveals

    Impact assets under management in the UK are up by a third compared with 2020 figures, according to latest report from Impact Investing Institute, while impact investing receives strong backing from government minister Lisa Nandy.

  • Is there a new far-right threat to EU social economy commitments?

    BRUSSELS BRIEFING: As Patriots for Europe looms large in the European Parliament, and Hungary takes on the presidency of the European Council, how might policies that favour the social economy fare, asks our Brussels correspondent.

  • African Union unanimously adopts 10-year strategy to boost social and solidarity economy

    Proposals to develop social enterprises and other similar organisations seek to remove barriers to finance and markets and support informal economy organisations to build the “inclusive economy of Africa in the modern era”.

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The Editor's Post: Waiting for EU

It's the EU Parliament's turn in the 2024 elections series. With the far-right on the rise, supporters of the impact economy will be waiting for the result with anguish. This week's view from the Pioneers Post newsroom.

The Impact World this Week: 24 May 2024

The most interesting news snippets from around the world. This week: The social enterprise community pays tribute to David LePage, a new report highlights the value of social value and a strategy to mobilise £1tn of impact capital is launched.