Impact Investing’s Role in Global Development

This article looks at impact investing and its potential to address global issues and how impact investing can play an important role in filling funding gaps for development. The article concludes that impact investing is certainly affecting international development and providing an increasingly important source of capital that is sustainable and scalable. The article states that some impact investors can be described as impact first, whereas others can still be seen as return first Next to its important role the article also mentions challenges that arise as the impact investing sector continues to grow. Matchmaking capital with the users of capital is difficult, and not just in impact investing. This is a challenge that impact investors are trying to address.