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Nancy Birdsall

Nancy Birdsall is President Emeritus and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development.

Nancy Birdsall presenting the keynote address at the 2018 Australasian Aid Conference

15 March 2018

Strugglers: the new poor of the 21st century

by Nancy Birdsall

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