When you get talking to people in positions of power, you find that often their worldview is framed … - Duncan Green

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I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

Duncan Green

When you get talking to people in positions of power, you find that often their worldview is framed either in terms of their disciplinary studies at university and
or the country where they first got interest in development.

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