8 Implementing ‘Impact’ in Rural Ghana: Negotiating Meanings and Shifting Interpretations

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editors’ Preface vii
4. List of Figures and Tables x
5. Notes on Contributors xi
6. 1 Introduction: Labelling and Enacting Impact Investing across Contexts 1
7. PART I Translating the Impact Label into National and Transnational Contexts
8. 2 Impact Investing and Philanthropy in the Global South: Innovative Finance at the Aga Khan Development Network 19
9. 3 Socio-genesis of the Impact Investing World in France 39
10. 4 Capitalizing on Capitalism: How Impact Investing in Geneva Emerged among the Traditional Financial Field 65
11. 5 Impact Investing and the Politics of Leverage: Towards a Meso-level Perspective on Derisking 84
12. 6 Social Impact Investing in Italy: A Case of Weak Financialization of Welfare? 106
13. 7 Balancing Risks and Outcomes in Colombia’s First Social Impact Bond: Empleando Futuro 123
14. PART II Enacting Impact in Investment Practices
15. 8 Implementing ‘Impact’ in Rural Ghana: Negotiating Meanings and Shifting Interpretations 151
16. 9 Relational Work and Power in an Emerging Market: Local Understandings of Impact Investing in Nigeria 170
17. 10 The Impact of Ignorance: Sustaining Impact Investing’s Fictional Expectations 189
18. 11 Conclusion: Towards a Theorization of Varieties of Impact Investing 210
19. Index 221