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PhD Student Marco Andreu Speaks at LSE
PAIS PhD student Marco Andreu was invited to present at the LSE Conference on 'Everyday Humanitarianism'.
Marco's paper was entitled: 'A Responsibility to Profit? Social Impact Bonds as a Form of Humanitarian Finance'.
Abstract:
Recent years have seen the emergence of new forms of ‘social impact investing’ which aim to achieve the dual objective of producing a social outcome while earning financial returns on capital. One subset of impact investing vehicles is the so-called social impact bond (SIB), geared towards financing social welfare services. Across the Global North and the Global South, SIBs are now being rolled out to facilitate humanitarian purposes through market means. In an effort to trace the politics of such “humanitarian finance”, Marco engages a case study of the London Homelessness SIB, which seeks to improve outcomes for entrenched rough sleepers.
Further details of this ongoing project on ethical finance and the politics of impact investing can be found here: https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/people/andreu/