What do Olympic athletes and developing country entrepreneurs have in common?

December 26, 2013
Ankur Sohanpal

This Devex post talks about the need for an entrepreneurship enabling ecosystem in developing countries, as an integral part of spurring entrepreneurship as a means to enhancing economic growth. Like athletes, social entrepreneurs invest ‘blood and sweat’ in their efforts – their enterprises. Unlike athletes, they do not have enabling ecosystems. Realizing the significant role an entrepreneurship enabling ecosystem can play in bringing about integrated economic development, USAID is launching a new initiative called PACE, or Partnering to Accelerate Entrepreneurship. Read more here.



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