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Marred by the fiscal austerity and debt deflating initiatives western countries are pivoting their "foreign aid" distributing mechanism. According to a recent article published in the Financial Times , UK will try Sovereign Wealth Fund model to distribute aid in India. Which basically means the United Kingdom's Government will start investing rather then giving "grants" and other kind of free/subsided money to resolve pressing social and environmental challenges in the developing countries.These investments are expected to make financial returns to the UK taxpayers. If this model is successful in India UK government has plans to replicate this investment,rather then aid model to other foreign aid recipient country ...... USAID has also started a similar kind of "impact investing"model.....one of the many initiatives of USAID is its recent partnership with -JPMorgan Chase & Co., the Rockefeller Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundati...