The international development community has increasingly realized that social entrepreneurs have a vital role to play in efforts to tackle global development problems. But what are social entrepreneurs and how do they fill the gaps in the international aid architecture?
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Social entrepreneurs have innovative ideas to solve the world’s most pressing development problems and do that by creating products, systems and solutions to help change people’s lives, Devex Impact associate editor Adva Saldinger explains in this video feature.
Watch the clip above to know more about social enterprises and how they have evolved through the years.
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