ETHNIC-BASED policies are necessary to tackle worsening inequality among the Chinese and Indians, said a think-tank researcher.
Institute for R&D of Policy (IRDP) programme manager Ammar Atan said the Statistics Department’s household income surveys showed that the income gap between the richest and poorest families in the Chinese and Indian communities increased between 2016 and 2019.
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Ammar is morally blind. Surely a needs based affirmative policy would be the way to go instead of race based initiatives which has been shown as an inefficient method to allocate resources.
Posted 3 years ago by Panchen Low
Policies to help the poor should not be race-based. Period
Posted 3 years ago by Rupert Lum
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