Impact Investing: Sustainable Finance Solutions

This lecture covers impact investing in sustainable and entrepreneurial finance, focusing on concepts like impact measurement, impact investment funds, and the role of development finance institutions. It discusses the challenges and opportunities in impact investing, including case studies on creating impact investment funds and the performance of impact funds. The lecture also explores the thematic approach to impact investing, the importance of setting performance metrics, and the use of standardized impact performance metrics like IRIS. Additionally, it delves into the role of multilateral and bilateral development finance institutions in supporting private sector development in emerging markets.