Situating the Next Generation of Impact Measurement and Evaluation for Impact Investing

In taking stock of the landscape, this paper promotes a convergence of methods, building from both the impact investment and evaluation fields.The commitment of impact investors to strengthen the process of generating evidence for their social returns alongside the evidence for financial returns is a veritable game changer. But social change is a complex business and good intentions do not necessarily translate into verifiable impact.As the public sector, bilaterals, and multilaterals increasingly partner with impact investors in achieving collective impact goals, the need for strong evidence about impact becomes even more compelling. The time has come to develop new mindsets and approaches that can be widely shared and employed in ways that will advance the frontier for impact measurement and evaluation of impact investing. Each of the menu options presented in this paper can contribute to building evidence about impact. The next generation of measurement will be stronger if the full range of options comes into play and the more evaluative approaches become commonplace as means for developing evidence and testing assumptions about the processes of change from a stakeholder perspective– with a view toward context and systems.Creating and sharing evidence about impact is a key lever for contributing to greater impact, demonstrating additionality, and for building confidence among potential investors, partners and observers in this emergent industry on its path to maturation. Further, the range of measurement options offers opportunities to choose appropriate approaches that will allow data to contribute to impact management– to improve on the business model of ventures and to improve services and systems that improve conditions for people and households living in poverty.

Le Mile-End comme synthèse d’une montréalité en devenir

La métropole montréalaise présente une dynamique sociale spécifique ne correspondant pas aux modèles occidentaux connus. Maelström culturel postmoderne, les références identitaires y sont multiples. Le quartier Mile-End, situé au coeur de l’île, synthétise et symbolise mieux que tout autre ce caractère pluriel et hybride. Ici, il faut comprendre le terme hybridité, à la suite de Sherry Simon, comme une marque positive et non au sens péjoratif qu’il a pu avoir autrefois. Le présent article propose donc une réflexion sur ce quartier ainsi que sur le sens et la portée de la notion d’hybridité culturelle, et ce à partir de nos observations du quotidien. Nous proposerons de concevoir cette particularité du Mile-End comme la synthèse d’une montréalité en devenir.Montreal’s interethnic dynamic does not correspond to any known occidental model. In the city’s postmodern cultural maelstrom, plural identity referents are the norm. Located in the heart of the city, the Mile-End neighbourhood synthetizes and symbolizes better than any other the city’s plural and hybrid social reality. In this article, the concept of hybridity as defined by Sherry Simon is presented as a hybrid marker, even though it as been considered pejorative in the past. Based on observations of everyday life, I propose a reflexion on the meaning and scope of the concept of cultural hybridity in the Mile-End neighbourhood. I see this aspect of Mile-End as the crystallization of an emerging « montréalité »

Dynamics and stability of radiation-driven double ablation front structures.

The dynamics of double ablation front (DAF) structures is studied for planar targets with moderate atomic number ablators. These structures are obtained in hydrodynamic simulations for various materials and laser intensities and are qualitatively characterized during the acceleration stage of the target. The importance of the radiative transport for the DAF dynamics is then demonstrated. Simulated hydrodynamic profiles are compared with a theoretical model, showing the consistency of the model and the relevant parameters for the dynamics description. The stability of DAF structures with respect to two-dimensional perturbations is studied using two different approaches: one considers the assumptions of the theoretical model and the other one a more complete physics. The numerical simulations performed with both approaches demonstrate good agreement of dispersion curve

Control de un sistema de 3 ejes cartesianos con SIMOTION

El presente trabajo de fin de grado tiene como objetivo el control de velocidad y posicionamiento de una estructura de tres ejes cartesianos con el sistema de control de movimiento SIMOTION ofertada por la marca Siemens. Para llevar a cabo dicho control, será necesario conocer las características y el funcionamiento de todos los equipos que formarán el sistema, ya sean reales o virtuales. Posteriormente, se procederá a diseñar el código necesario combinando dos lenguajes diferentes (MCC y ST) con el objetivo de probar y ejecutar la aplicación deseada, tanto en simulación como en la máquina. Finalmente, se construirá la estructura donde se llevará a la realidad la aplicación propuesta.The objective of the present final degree project is to establish a control of speed and positioning of a structure with three Cartesian axes with the SIMOTION motion control system offered by the Siemens brand. To carry out this job, it will be essential to know the characteristics and the operation of the equipment the system is compound with, whether they are real or virtual. Subsequently, we will proceed to design the necessary code combining two different languages (MCC and ST) in order to load and execute the desired application, either in simulation or in the machine. Finally, the structure in which the proposed application will be taken to reality, will be built.Hemen aurkitzen dugun gradu amaierako lan honetan, Siemens markak eskeinitako SIMOTION mugimendu kontrol sisteman oinarritzen den hiru ardatz kartesiarren posizio eta abiaduraren kontrola proposatzen da. Horretarako, beharrezkoa izango da sistema osatzen duten ekipoen ezaugarriak eta hauen funtzionamendua guztiz ulertzea, nahiz eta hauek errealak zein birtualak izan. Ondoren, makinan zein simulazioan konprobatu eta exekutatzeko helburuarekin, kodigoa bi lengoaia ezberdin konbinatuz (MCC eta ST) idatziko da. Bukatzeko, desiratutako aplikazioa burutuko den prototipoa eraikiko da

A Measure of Gender Wage Discrimination at Quantiles

Revised: 2006-05.-- Published as an article in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, vol. 18, issue 1, pp. 165-179.quantile regression, gender discrimination, wage gap