Growth and solidarity are the pillars on which to rebuild the economy
Growth and solidarity. These are the twin pillars on which our post-Covid society will be built. A reconstruction and development plan (RDP) of sorts, this time with a greater appreciation of what our state can and can’t deliver.
Growth, because we know that if we can’t grow output over the next two to three years we face the real prospect of a sovereign default. Solidarity, because more than ever before our future survival — not to mention prosperity — will depend on lifting the whole society and not just a few. If Covid teaches nothing else, it demonstrates that until we are all protected none of us is protected...
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