Brazil's new president aims to turn around the country's fortunes. But Jair Bolsonaro might do well to listen to a young social entrepreneur who has already spent 15 years helping Brazil's poorest people set up their own small businesses.
One UK social enterprise has found that encouraging entrepreneurship is empowering LGBT people against a backdrop of discrimination and violence. Alice Troy-Donovan reports.
If social enterprise strives for a more equal society and a fairer economy, it should be impacting gender inequality. A new report by the British Council considers how it’s doing.
When it comes to impact investment, we’re at risk of getting too obsessed with the means, rather than the end, warns CEO of Social Enterprise UK and chair of the Social Enterprise World Forum Peter Holbrook CBE.
Brazil's largest impact investing fund gets a $10m boost, the Nigerian government launches a solar powered schools initiative in Lagos and the prestigious Cambridge University announces the launch of a 2016 social innovation masters degree.
