> Return to the #67 Newsletter The “Vademecum on Food and Beverage Markets 2016” measures countries’ attractiveness and potential according to six weighted indicators: food and beverage import volumes, population, legal framework and security, the number of middle class households, food and beverage consumer spending per capita, and GDP per capita. The report, published for the 20th edition of the Food and Beverage Industry Meeting, helps companies understand the large scale scenarios…
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Organizational Challenges of Impact Investing
> Return to the #66 Newsletter The emerging phenomenon in social finance known as impact investing is the focus of Tom Vanderbroek‘s recently defended dissertation, “Organizational Challenges of Impact Investing: An Ethnographic Study and a Theoretical Exploration.” The author identifies impact investment as a contemporary social-finance phenomenon that could stand to inform us how private capital is being mobilized to address some of the most difficult societal/environmental challenges. The dissertation is based…
Measuring Economic Uncertainty
Since January 2011 IESE’s International Center for Decision Making has published the IESE Index of Economic Uncertainty (I3E) on a monthly basis. Prof. Miguel Angel Ariño has developed I3E to provide a quantifiable measure of uncertainty to help people make smart decisions based on data that are inherently imperfect or biased. The indicator provides objective data and enables the measurement and comparison of variables with other periods and economic contexts….