Social Impact and Positive Change in Russia Opinions of six experts regarding the present and future of the impact approach in Russia

Abstract

Social impact investments, or impact investments, are becoming increasingly prominent in the modern world building. At the same time, the concept itself, which puts classical investment cases on a level with social initiatives, still remains a thing in itself. What means “impact”? How to assess social impact? Do we need universal metrics to evaluate it? We asked people who know about the topic of impact investments to answer these questions on the experience of their own investments or a deep expert immersion in the topic.