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How digital technology can reduce inequality

Famend economist Tony Atkinson argues that “if we’re involved about equality of alternative tomorrow, we should be involved about inequality of final result at this time”. By no means was this assertion more true than at this time, as Indonesia, and nations of your complete world, proceed to face the devastating welfare and financial challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Until governments act now, extra folks will likely be pushed towards excessive poverty, additional entrenching those that are most weak, while giving rise to challenges that not solely embody financial well-being but additionally embody different multidimensional features of poverty and inequality; significantly inequality in well being and entry to training in addition to drastic adjustments in peoples’ requirements of residing. The pandemic appears to additional spotlight the significance of the primary and tenth Sustainable Growth Objectives, specifically to…