SINGAPORE - The issue of inequality reared its head during a discussion at the Singapore Book Fair on Monday (May 18), as panellists discussed the challenges society could face in a world changed by the coronavirus pandemic.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - The issue of inequality reared its head during a discussion at the Singapore Book Fair on Monday , as panellists discussed the challenges society could face in a world changed by the coronavirus pandemic.
"What Covid has done is shine the light on some of our shortcomings. The fact that poverty still exists in this very wealthy country is one. Inequality is another, the plight of the elderly, single parents, and foreign workers." Workers in different fields will be affected by income and job insecurity as a result of Covid-19, said Mr Khanna, who called for a wider social safety net and new kinds of social protection.
"Another thing we should look at is how care work has to be compensated for, so that many women who look after their elderly parents, or others in the family, are not left high and dry in their old age with less savings and less retirement." On social cohesion in the post-Covid-19 world, Dr Mathews said people around the world are now defining the"other" more clearly.
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