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September 26, 2008

Clinton Global Initiative
U.K. Leader Sees Global Opportunity

During the last session of the Clinton Global Initiative, Gordon Brown, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, said the current financial crisis facing America can be an opportunity to improve the worldwide economy.

He said the problem can be a chance “to build a truly global society,” one which provides new jobs in the United States to replace the work that is being sent overseas and allows for resources, such as energy and food, to be cultivated and spread more evenly.

If the inequality between the rich and poor continues to grow, he said, so will tensions between them. Impoverished people will start asking more frequently, “Why can I not have some benefit from globalization that is happening around the world?”

While he said he understood the concerns of the anti-globalization movement, he said that the increasing connectedness of the world is inevitable.

As an example, he pointed out the irony of some protesters. During a visit to the International Monetary Fund, in Washington, he said he saw a sign that read: “Worldwide Campaign Against Globalization.”

— Ian Wilhelm

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