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Social investments refer to the changing relation between market-driven investments and social (public benefit) investments. Examples are public benefit contributions based on concessionary reduction of interest rates or return on investment expectations below market rates.
19 Ιαν 2010 · Social investors are interested in the impact of their investment on people as well as in making a profit.
11 Αυγ 2022 · This article proposes a novel conceptual and methodological framework to re-engage sociological and political science in the empirical study of contemporary welfare state dynamics, centred around four contributions.
What is social investment? Social investments are social policies that centre on human skills and capabilities and aim to fulfil both economic and social goals. Beyond this core, however, the existing literature provides many different definitions and understandings of social investments.
The introduction to the volume surveys the emergence, diffusion, limits, merits, and politics of social investment as an ‘emerging’ welfare policy paradigm for the knowledge-based economy.
Central to this notion of social investment is the idea that social policies can be seen as productive factors that generate positive returns to the economy by enhancing economic participation and realising economic growth (Midgley, Reference Midgley 1999).
