Finance for a Better World The Shift toward Sustainability 1st Edition by Henri Claude de Bettignies, François Lépineux 0230551300 9780230551305

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ISBN 10: 0230551300

ISBN 13: 9780230551305

Author: Henri-Claude de Bettignies

What has prompted the shift toward sustainability in numerous financial areas? Can investors’ mindsets be changed to embrace a long-term view? Can shareholders and activists play a greater role in encouraging financial actors to behave more responsibly? These are some of the relevant topics that are explored in this forward-looking set of essays.

Finance for a Better World The Shift toward Sustainability 1st Table of contents: 

1 Introduction

Part I Microfinance and Socially Responsible Investment: Evolution and Impact on Human Rights

2 Microfinance, Financial Inclusion and Social Responsibility

3 Explaining the Take-Off of Socially Responsible Investment

4 Socially Responsible Investment: Global Convergence or Local Divergence?

5 The Use of Shareholder Proposals to Address Corporate Human Rights Performance

Part II Adopting a Sustainable Perspective in Financial Institutions and Markets

6 Sustainable Banking: the Banco Real Model

7 Insurers’ Corporate Responsibility Policies: a Response to the Industry’s Bad Image?

8 The Relative Valuation of Socially Responsible Firms: an Exploratory Study

9 Building the Case for Long-Term Investing in Stock Markets: Breaking Free from the Short-Term Meas

Part III Is a Paradigm Shift Underway? Three Pioneering Reflections

10 Financing Agriculture in Developing Countries: Governance Models Promoting Sustainability

11 Innovative Investments for Sustainability: Solutions for the Twenty-First Century

12 Financialization: Limits and Ways Out

13 Conclusion: Manifesto for Finance that Serves the Common Good

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