For corporate America, this could easily become a model of social investment, eclipsing traditional corporate philanthropy in favor of a muscular social investment that is built on a complex and financially beneficial network of relationships between government, nonprofit organizations and corporations.
The bank is trying to follow its U.S. model of an integrated corporate and investment bank in emerging markets following the acquisition of Merrill Lynch in 2008.
What is clear from this model is that this type of game-changing corporate philanthropic investment does not occur without substantially rewarding the corporate community through tax incentives.