Center for Global Development, 23 January 2007.

The 2005 WIDER Annual Lecture, under the title of ‘The World is not Flat: Inequality and Injustice in our Global Economy’, makes reference to ‘flatness’ and alludes to the more level playing field due to globalisation that has enabled China, India, and others to start catching up with the living standards of rich countries.

However, as the author points out, the world is far from flat. Unequal opportunities exist and persist both at the level of households within countries and at the level of nations in a global context; indeed the same forces of globalisation are likely to exacerbate these inequalities.

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