A Comparative Analysis of Impact Investments : India and World

There is a buzz about Impact Investment everywhere in the world specifically in the Development Sector and India is not apart. So, this paper aimed to study the Impact Investments in India andWorld from 2010 till 2016. According to the Global Impact Investors Network Impact Investment areparallel investment to Venture Capital where the former deals with Social and Environmental Impactwith Financial Return and later deals with Financial Return only The Indian Impact Investment Market was valued at $1 billion investments in 2015 and it can grow to $6-8 billion by 2025. It is growing at 15 percent CAGR from last 6 years. India is becoming one of the largest destinations in the impact investment world where 50+ Impact Investors are active and they have invested a cumulative investment of $4.1 billion in 350+ social enterprises. In this study, the data of Impact Investments has been taken from 2010 till 2016 to compare the market of India & the World and used the Descriptive Analysis tool. Further, this study focuses on the level of impact investment in different sectors in Indian as well as global context. The present study also put an insight to analyze the proportion of deal types of impact investment for the year 2010 and 2016