Americas Quarterly interviews impact investing professionals, including the GIIN's Amit Bouri, to discuss the effectiveness of impact investment as a tool to reduce poverty.

"Increasingly, for-profit investment capital is being used to provide critical goods and services to poor people, including quality health care, clean water, education, affordable clean energy, and financial services. Individual investors, large-scale financial institutions, private foundations, retirement fund managers, and wealth advisors are among those allocating capital for impact investments."