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IMPACT INVESTMENT [22 records]

Record 1 2025-05-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Military Titles
  • Labour and Employment
  • Ethics and Morals
  • Military Administration
OBS

This prestigious DGCIPA [Director General Costing, Investment Planning and Approvals] award is aimed at recognizing and honouring individuals who exemplify reliability, professionalism, and quiet leadership and thereby make a meaningful and sustained impact on DGCIPA processes, services, and/or support.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations militaires diverses
  • Travail et emploi
  • Éthique et Morale
  • Administration militaire

Spanish

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Record 2 2025-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemistry
  • Anti-pollution Measures
CONT

The clean hydrogen investment tax credit is expected to have a positive environmental impact by encouraging investment in clean hydrogen production that would reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie
  • Mesures antipollution
CONT

Il est prévu que le crédit d'impôt à l'investissement pour l'hydrogène propre ait un impact environnemental positif en encourageant l'investissement dans la production d'hydrogène propre qui viendrait réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre.

Spanish

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Record 3 2022-06-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

An industrial fishery... refers to the high level of technology, investment, and impact it brings to a fishery. These fisheries, with few exceptions in marine fisheries, use big boats that are worth millions of dollars and often are equipped with technology capable of efficient, giant catches. Boats may stay out on fishing trips anywhere from a few weeks to years, and includes both local and foreign fishing fleets.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Pêche commerciale

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Colaboración con la FAO
  • Pesca comercial
CONT

La pesca industrial se efectúa con barcos de forma y dimensiones muy variadas, determinadas por el tipo de pesca practicado y en parte por las tradiciones de los astilleros locales.

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Record 4 2020-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
  • Investment
Key term(s)
  • Canada's National Advisory Board to the Social Impact Investment Task Force

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Coopération et développement économiques
  • Investissements et placements
OBS

[Le] Comité consultatif national du Canada du Groupe de travail sur l'investissement social [compte parmi ses membres] des investisseurs d'impact, des gestionnaires de fonds d'investissement d'impact, des dirigeants du secteur financier et d'organismes sans but lucratif ainsi que des universitaires.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités nacionales canadienses
  • Cooperación y desarrollo económicos
  • Inversiones
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Record 5 2017-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
  • Social Movements
DEF

Investments made into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention to generate [positive] social and environmental impact alongside a financial return.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
  • Mouvements sociaux
CONT

Apparu pour la première fois en 2007, l'investissement d'impact consiste à allier un retour social à un retour financier sur investissement.

Spanish

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Record 6 2017-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • Industries - General
OBS

Industry Canada. Working Paper Series, 17.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Industries - Généralités

Spanish

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Record 7 2016-10-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
OBS

Ottawa: Industry Canada, 1997. Working Paper Series, No.17. "This study begins by examining the increased significance of trade and investment, the changing comparative advantage of China, and the changing inter-regional relationship in trade and investment between China and Hong Kong, Canada as well as other economies after 1978." -- Introduction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
OBS

Ottawa : Industrie Canada, 1997. Série de documents de travail, no. 17. « Dans la présente étude, on se penche d'abord sur l'importance accrue du commerce et de l'investissement, sur l'avantage comparatif changeant de la Chine et sur les rapports interrégionaux changeants en ce qui concerne le commerce et l'investissement entre la Chine et Hong Kong, le Canada et d'autres économies après 1978.» -- Introduction.

Spanish

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Record 8 2015-12-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Training of Personnel
  • Education Theory and Methods
DEF

Training tailored for a specific group of employees, all belonging to the same organisation, and delivered on client premises.

CONT

On-site training : Effective training helps your organization achieve its goals and objectives. However, travel costs, time away from the job and... other factors can impact the effectiveness and return on your training investment. Let CSA Group customize, package and deliver a wide range of standards-based training solutions directly related to your needs delivered on-site at your location.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Perfectionnement et formation du personnel
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
DEF

Formation conçue pour un groupe spécifique d'employés faisant partie de la même organisation et dispensée dans les locaux du client.

CONT

Les méthodes pédagogiques utilisées permettent aux participantes de réaliser les apprentissages prévus par les objectifs de la formation. Deux modes peuvent s'appliquer : le présentiel - formation sur place et non à distance, et le virtuel - formation en ligne.

Spanish

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Record 9 2014-07-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Loans
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
CONT

Deleveraging and its impact on financial markets. The contagion that followed the Russian moratorium had dramatic repercussions for global financial markets. While leveraged investors had already begun a slow process or retrenchment since the onset of the Asian crisis, the Russian announcement acted as a catalyst for a sharp market reversal. The need to cover losses in the most affected market segments and the sudden increase in margin calls from lenders forced investors to liquidate a wide range of assets and investment strategies.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prêts et emprunts
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière

Spanish

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Record 10 2012-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Government Contracts
  • Investment
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
CONT

A social impact bond(SIB) is a contract with a public sector commissioner in which it pays for improved social outcomes. [Investment] is raised from socially interested investors. The investment capital is used to fund service providers, with government agreeing to provide a return to investors from a portion of the projected cost savings if the intervention is successful.

OBS

The concept of "socially responsible bond" is more generic since it does not necessarily mean that the returns are based on the achievement of specific goals.

Key term(s)
  • pay-for-success bond

French

Domaine(s)
  • Marchés publics
  • Investissements et placements
  • Coopération et développement économiques
DEF

[Les] obligations à impact social transfèrent [la totalité ou] une partie des risques financiers du gouvernement et des contribuables aux investisseurs privés. Ces investisseurs privés octroient des financements initiaux, et le gouvernement ne les rétribue que si l'intervention est fructueuse.

OBS

«Impact» dans le sens anglais d'«effet, influence» est encore critiqué par certains auteurs, mais il est maintenant passé dans l'usage (Multidictionnaire 2009).

Spanish

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Record 11 2009-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
  • Environmental Economics
CONT

A unique dimension of ex-post impact assessments is that in addition to identifying both negative and positive impacts, they may also reveal specific violations that have occurred as a direct result of the investment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Coopération et développement économiques
  • Économie environnementale
CONT

Étude d'impact à posteriori relative à l'emplacement de la Baie de Chingoudy.

Spanish

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Record 12 2009-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecosystems
DEF

Environmental impact of a number of factors on resources that are outside a given state's territory. These factors are government practices, corporate conduct, investment and technological transfer practices and consumption patterns.

CONT

Peter Dauvergne developed the concept of a "shadow ecology" to assess the total environmental impact of one country on resource management in another country or area. Aspects of a shadow ecology include government aid and loans; corporate practices, investment, and technology transfers; and trade factos such as consumption, export and consumer prices, and import tariffs.

CONT

The major cities of the economically powerful Western nations constitute the nodes of these networks, enabling these nations to draw upon the ecological capital of all other nations to provide food for their populations, energy and materials for their economies, and even land, air and water to absorb their waste by-products. This ecological capital, which may be found thousands of miles from the regions in which it is used, forms the shadow ecology of an economy. The oceans, the atmosphere (climate), and other common assets also form part of this shadow ecology, which includes the environmental resources a country draws from other countries and the global common assets.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écosystèmes
DEF

Système écologique et ressources écologiques appartenant à un pays en voie de développement mais qui sont utilisés comme prolongement ou comme subsidiaire des écosystèmes et des ressources écologiques des pays développés.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ecosistemas
CONT

Una ecología de sombra se refiere a aquellas localidades distantes en las cuales los centros urbanos y de producción aseguran los alimentos, recursos naturales y otros servicios ecológicos requeridos para su supervivencia.

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Record 13 2006-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Research Facilities
CONT

... the cost of conducting research or undertaking impact assessment studies in the Arctic is very high. The financial investment related to... research hardware and study platforms can become exorbitant. For example, in 1975, an oceanographic research vessel... was estimated to cost about $10 million... and the BIOS project, a current research effort involving an experimental oil spill in the Arctic, is expected to cost over $7 million....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations de recherche scientifique
OBS

Pluriel : des plateformes, des plates-formes.

OBS

plateforme (sing.); plateformes (pl.) : Ces graphies, puisées des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, sont attestées dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Key term(s)
  • plateforme d'étude

Spanish

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Record 14 2004-05-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economics
  • Investment
CONT

Economic impact investment in infrastructure can have important implications for economic growth, income distribution and poverty alleviation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économique
  • Investissements et placements
CONT

Au 30 novembre 2003, ses investissements à impact économique québécois avaient contribué au maintien et à la création de plus de 7 000 emplois.

Spanish

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Record 15 2003-03-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • Finance
OBS

Re$earch Money is a publication of Re$earch Money Inc., a division of The Impact Group. First published in 1987, Re$earch Money is Canada's most authoritative source of information and analysis of trends in science and technology policy and investment.

OBS

Title confirmed by Re$earch Money Inc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Finances
OBS

Appellation confirmée par Re$earch Money Inc.

Spanish

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Record 16 2001-10-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Conditions and Forecasting
DEF

Attitudes or beliefs about future economic activity.

OBS

While expectations are hard to measure, they can have a significant impact on future trends. Consumers who expect interest rates to rise may delay the purchase of homes or major consumer products, thus slowing down business activity. Wage-earners who expect inflation to continue or to get worse may demand even bigger wage increases in collective bargaining, thus adding to inflation pressures. Businesspeople who are gloomy about future profits because they expect costs to rise sharply or because they see few signs of future market growth will delay investment plans, thus slowing down economic growth. Economists now use business-and consumer-confidence surveys to help measure changes in expectations.

OBS

Term usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • expectation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prévisions et conjonctures économiques
DEF

Hypothèses, plus ou moins optimistes ou pessimistes quant à l'avenir, sur lesquelles les agents économiques fondent leurs prévisions en vue d'une décision.

OBS

Terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • anticipation

Spanish

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Record 17 1999-04-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Actuarial Practice
DEF

Estimates of the impact of future events(e. g., longevity statistics and investment income rates) used in calculating actuarial liabilities.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Actuariat
DEF

Ensemble d'hypothèses ou d'estimations concernant les événements futurs (par exemple taux de mortalité et taux de rendement des placements) et tenant compte du risque de détérioration des résultats.

OBS

Les hypothèses actuarielles servent au calcul des provisions techniques.

Spanish

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Record 18 1994-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Documents and Works
OBS

OECD publication, 1991.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de documents et d'œuvres
OBS

Publication de l'OCDE, 1991.

Spanish

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Record 19 1991-11-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
  • Insurance
CONT

Elimination of qualitative standards could have an impact on the structure of institutional investment in securities markets because "legal for life" list would be gone. This would affect both trust and insurance companies.

OBS

An investment that a life insurance company is permitted to make. It is included on the Department of Insurance’s list of eligible securities.

OBS

Information provided by the Department of Insurance Canada, Ottawa.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
  • Assurances
CONT

Une lettre sur les placements admissibles est une lettre dans laquelle le vérificateur fournit au conseiller juridique une assurance à l'égard de certains montants ou ratios financiers particuliers. Cette assurance "aide" le conseiller juridique qui doit déclarer dans le prospectus que les valeurs offertes constituent des placements dans lesquels une société enregistrée ou inscrite au sens de la Loi sur les compagnies d'assurance canadiennes et britanniques (Canada) et d'un certain nombre d'autres lois fédérales et provinciales peut investir ses fonds.

OBS

"placement admissible et vertu de la Loi sur les compagnies d'assurance canadiennes et britanniques" : expression fournie par l'Institut canadien des valeurs mobilières (Montréal).

Spanish

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Record 20 1991-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Operating Systems (Software)
CONT

The NIST Center for Computing and Applied Mathematics(CCAM), working under sponsorship of the AMRF, has developed AutoMan, a software package which allows investors to include non-financial and even non-quantitative criteria in their analysis.... AutoMan uses four steps to measure the impact of potential investments : define the decision model by identifying impact criteria; establish weights for the categories and for the criteria through pairwise comparisons; rate investment alternatives with respect to each criterion; and compute a weighted average rating for each investment alternative.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'exploitation (Logiciels)

Spanish

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Record 21 1989-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Banking
CONT

The growth of [daily interest chequing accounts and Guaranteed Investment Certificates] clearly benefits customers who wish to build savings; their relatively high interest cost places pressure on interest margins, but the impact has been contained through careful spread management in the pricing of lending products.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Banque

Spanish

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Record 22 1986-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Taxation
CONT

The social policy items... generally have less impact than the investment incentives on the taxes payable by individual high-income filers... A number of these are widely used, such as contributions to registered pension plans(RPPs), registered retirement savings plans(RHOSPs) [etc. ]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiscalité

Spanish

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