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Kazi Awal/InsiderImpact investing doesn't always help the people impacted most by inequity and climate change, according to Durreen Shahnaz, founder and CEO of Impact Investment Exchange. As the founder and CEO of Impact Investment Exchange, I've seen how much actual impact impact investing can have — and how it can reinforce old, problematic norms. McGlashen's involvement in both the scandal and the world of impact investing is not merely a coincidence. This means that impact investing in Asia, Africa, and Latin America is coming from the Global North and with it, the power of how impact investing should go. While companies like IIX are all about the Global South investing in each other, we are the minority.
"Companies need to measure the impact they are creating internally on their workforce, and outside through its operations." Durreen Shahnaz, Founder and CEO, Impact Investment Exchange and Impact Investment Exchange Foundation Impact Investment Exchange; Edited by Kazi Awal/InsiderAs the world comes together in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic to build back better, governments and businesses both are facing a drastically new environment — one where sustainability is ultimately limited if they cannot secure the health and well-being of all the people including the workers and the vulnerable populations. Businesses need to now not only survive the pandemic but recover and have a lifeline to pivot their businesses so they're able to adapt and thrive in the new norm. Companies need to measure the impact they are creating internally on their workforce, and outside through its operations. For us at IIX, the bottom-up up approach of measuring impact has been the norm for the past 13 years.
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