Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen is acting chief of the Multilateral Investment Fund’s Access to Markets and Skills Unit, with particular expertise in its regional economic development and value chains portfolios. She also advises on partnership opportunities for the MIF’s grant and investment activities.Once a niche concept at the intersection of business and development, social entrepreneurship is now mainstream. A social entrepreneur, according to Ashoka founder Bill Draper, who coined the term in 1980, is a person…
Social entrepreneurship enters the mainstream
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