New Program-Related Investment Regulations Released by Treasury

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The main topic here is a change to Program-related investments, in which they can be used in for profit business applications. There is a semi in depth explanation of how the different government and private bodies came to the decision to allow this to happen.

Also this article shows how field evidence was gathered to influence the decisions that were made, while there may be some controversy with what has been reached it is also shown they simply expanded the out reach of the regulations and did not change them completely overall this brief article tells you the very basics and is certainly a starting ground for your own research on the subject mater.

However it certainly explains that what is being done is to help remove obstacles and to make Program Related Investments much more available and easier to make.

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