Social Finance Institute Japan's Website http://www.sfij.org/
社会的金融研究所 （β）
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Social Finance Institute Japan (SFIJ) is an independent research institute of "social finance".
About "Social Finance" and Our Services:
We define "social finance" as financial services that reduce and soothe harmful effects of financial exclusion beard from "infor-mation asymmetry", "transaction cost", "economy of scale" and over-pursuit of efficiency.
Examples of "social finance" are "microfinance", "CDFIs (community development financial institutions)" in U.S.A. and U.K., and "social banks" in Europe.
We convince that "social finance" brings us fairer and more agreeable equilibrium of goods
To defuse the concept of "social finance", we provide services below;
Independent/ requested research about "social finance", "social enterprise/ entrepreneur", "SRI", "CSR", "non-profits" and so on.
Lectures at universities and other schools.
Business consulting for for-profit / not-for-profit organizations and social finance institutions.
FAQ about "social finance"(in Japanese)
What makes "social finance" different from main-stream finance?
Why exclusion happens? - Mechanism of financial exclusion
Why financial needs should be fulfilled?
About Our President/Founder
Kouichi Karaki, Ph.D (from Hitotsubashi Univ., 2005.03)
After 12 years woking for a Japanese Mega-Bank, he started studying business administration, "business and society", sociology and finance at the graduate school of Hitotsubashi University, and got doctoral degree.
Then he lectured about "non-profits","social business",
"business and society", "manegement strategies", etc. at several universities.
And he founded SFIJ in 2009.
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