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Lessons In Social Enterprise From Dr. Condom

Mechai Viravaidya didn’t start out as a social entrepreneur. He began as a businessman with a freshly granted MBA who realized his country’s situation–Thailand–would never grow economically if its population explosion couldn’t be tamed.  Mechai’s understanding that economic development was ultimately tied to population control led him to create the Population Community Development Association (ironically, […]