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Income Inequality: Challenges In Bridging The Gap, Singapore Management University

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Increase social spending. Fine-tune foreign labour policies. Create more job opportunities.

These were just a few of the suggestions made during a forum organized by the anti-poverty group, ONE (Singapore) and Singapore Management University's Wee Kim Wee Centre on how to bridge the income inequality gap in Singapore.

Halimah Yacob, the Minister of State for the Ministry of Social and Family Development, said in the forum that a concern with income inequality is its impact on social mobility, as people need to have “a sense of hope and optimism that they can aspire to a better life”. How each society …

Human Trafficking: An Ancient Trade With A Modern Face, Singapore Management University

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If we believe that advances in science, health and human rights have led to a more civilised society than before, think again.