1 2005 wider annual lecture why inequality matters in a globalizing world helsinki october 26 nancy birdsall president center for global development washington dc 2 holy mackerel the is becoming flat several technological and political forces have converged that has produced web enabled playing field allows multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance soon even language thomas friedman 3 but not those us on top with right education countries can easily overlook people stuck deep craters across landscape this which about they are what we need do it 4 message often sign injustice markets by their nature generate manage downside globalization if sustain its upside polity complement our economy constructing key challenge 21 st century 5 three parts within developing
