Publication Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
11-2012
Abstract
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 deals with the problem depends on its political will and resources.
Keywords
income inequality, minimum wage, social mobility, social welfare
Disciplines
Economics | Social Welfare Law | State and Local Government Law
Copyright Owner and Holder
Copyright © Singapore Management University 2013
Licece/Creative Commons Licence
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Subject(s)
Income distribution -- Singapore, Equality -- Singapore
Citation
Singapore Management University.
Income inequality: Challenges in bridging the gap. (2012).
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/pers/22