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New Development: Private finance over public good? Questioning the impact of social and environmental impact bonds

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Jane Gibbon

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Abstract

Social impact bonds (SIBs) have emerged as an alternative mechanism for financing projects with an explicit social purpose. This article contrasts the proposed benefits of SIBs with the more mixed performance of early projects, and reviews the nascent literature, revealing a similar divide between initial optimism and subsequent critique. Despite this, SIBs continue to receive support, whilst expanding further through controversial new ‘development’ and ‘environmental’ impact bonds. This situation deserves much greater scrutiny, especially in the accounting literature.

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Author(s): Dey C, Gibbon J

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Public Money and Management

Year: 2018

Volume: 38

Issue: 5

Pages: 375-378

Online publication date: 01/06/2018

Acceptance date: 29/12/2017

Date deposited: 13/02/2018

ISSN (print): 0954-0962

ISSN (electronic): 1467-9302

Publisher: Routledge

URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2018.1477676

DOI: 10.1080/09540962.2018.1477676

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