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her knees, to raise the profile of this issue to the highest level and to press it
upon the global agenda. It has a responsibility to exert leadership with the
richer nations on this reality that undermines its success.
The World Bank has the potential to be the most important institution
to human development in the twenty-first century. It is a potential that can
be realized only when the Bank deals with the whole of the financial equation
affecting human development.
Capitalists themselves have a crucial role to play. Capitalism’s future depends
on alleviating poverty and curtailing inequality. I said at the beginning
of Part II that the staggering imbalance in income distribution is the
one reality that can collapse the system. Accordingly, everything that logically
contributes to curtailing such disparity must be on the table. And getting
the issue of global inequality, what causes and worsens inequality, and
how to lessen inequality squarely on the global agenda is a capitalist investment
that can pay very rich dividends.