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  • 15 Apr 2015
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The Social Progress Paradigm Shift

By: Michael E. Porter
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  • | Language:English
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Abstract

The last 50 years have been dominated by the idea that economic growth is the most direct route to better lives for the world's expanding population. But the signs are everywhere—environmental destruction, inequality, injustice—that economic development alone is not enough. What is a framework for the next 50 years? Professor Michael Porter embarked in a dialogue with social entrepreneurs and government innovators about creating a new paradigm in which economic development is the servant of social progress, not vice versa.

Keywords

Society; England; Social Entrepreneurship; Civil Society or Community; Economic Growth; Innovation and Invention; England

Citation

Porter, Michael E. "The Social Progress Paradigm Shift." Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, Skoll Foundation, Oxford, England, April 15, 2015.
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