Social Impact Bonds in Health

Social Impact Bonds are a potentially very powerful instrument for creating change and improvement. This short paper describes the basic structure of social impact bonds, why they might be useful for the public sector, and some of the issues that need to be considered for implementation.

Health & wellbeing Social finance & ventures

Posted on: 1 October 2010 Authors: John Loder,

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