🏆 Crisis is exactly the time to make structural changes to address poverty and inequality

Extract from Authors

Since the onset of the coronavirus crisis in January this year, life has been lived in a state of suspended reality. Plans have been shelved, daily habits altered, and the steady pursuit of tasks and goals has been replaced with a feeling of wait and see.

Judges’ Comments

Prof Teo You Yenn and Ng Kok Hoe are two of Singapore’s foremost experts on poverty and  inequality and their expertise shows in this commentary when they argue that it is not enough to offer immediate aid to those affected by the pandemic. Rather, they wrote, this crisis is the best time to make structural changes that will bring long-lasting benefits to the poor and vulnerable.

Written by
Teo You Yenn & Ng Kok Hoe

Tuesday,
17 March 2020

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