The debate on poverty in Singapore has tended to focus on how much help the Government —and society at large — should extend to the poor. Advocates for doing more argue that given Singapore’s prosperity and its claims to be a first-world country, the little that the Government spends on welfare, compared with other developed economies, is unconscionable.
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