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View: Need to move past binary ways of thinking about workers’ conditions and economic growth

View: Need to move past binary ways of thinking about workers’ conditions and economic growth
View: Need to move past binary ways of thinking about workers’ conditions and economic growth

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With the Covid-19 pandemic, we have yet another crisis on our hands that appears never-ending, obfuscating any clear thinking on fundamental questions: what kind of society do we want to rebuild after the pandemic? How will benefits and burdens be distributed in such a society?

by Arghya Sengupta and Lalit PandaIt’s a testament to the complexity of our era that our crises seem to run on like never-ending, overlapping nightmares, leaving little scope for rebuilding. The War on Terror never really ended. The Great Recession of the last decade came and went, yielding immediate lessons on risk management for some, but few, if any, structural changes.With the Covid-19 pandemic, we have yet another crisis on our hands that
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