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Speaking at the GSG Summit, Julia Gillard says impact investing should help build a gender-equitable world post-pandemic, while First Bank of Nigeria chair Ibukun Awosika warns investment in women must be more strategic.

Global Steering Group for Impact Investment chair Sir Ronald Cohen gives a rousing welcome to delegates at this year's Global Impact Summit.

Are public sector accounts ‘materially misstated’? Our columnist gets anxious as he submerges himself in the alphabet soup of global public sector accounting standards – and proposes a simple addition to bring social value back to the surface.

Making social innovation skills available to all would also help heal a fractured society, says Ashoka founder, as a new survey finds that 77% of social entrepreneurs are already collaborating widely – and many are 'activating' others to become changemakers.

As social investment network AVPN turns 10, its first Asian boss explains how she's translating the foreign concept of venture philanthropy, why the “cloak of joint decision-making” is so powerful – and why she was an unlikely candidate for CEO.

At the Social Enterprise World Forum 2021, Doughnut Economics Action Lab’s Erinch Sahan urges the social enterprise movement to stop seeing itself as existing on the margins.

Around 3,000 people from 87 countries and territories were welcomed today at the opening ceremony of the Social Enterprise World Forum 2021.