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Michael Woolcock is Lead Social Development Specialist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank, based in Malaysia.

Aboriginal puzzle (Flickr/Michael Coghlan CC BY-SA 2.0)

26 May 2016

Policy-practice mismatches: insights from Indigenous affairs

by Michael Woolcock

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