Youth, women spur social businesses in Pakistan

Making an impact: Young people interested in affecting change in their country are stepping up with action through social entrepreneurship. — Reuters

FROM turning organic waste into fertiliser to sharing farm equipment, new businesses seeking to address social problems in Pakistan have made the South Asian nation one of the best performers in the second global poll on social entrepreneurs.

Pakistan was one of the three countries, along with Australia and the Netherlands, whose overall ranking improved the most since the first Thomson Reuters Foundation experts’ poll on the best countries for social entrepreneurs in 2016.