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Forward Singapore: Revisiting Our Social Compact

10 April 2023

Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) and Minister for Finance, Mr Lawrence Wong

A refreshed social compact for the next bound of development 

All governments understand what happens when their citizens are excluded from the country’s progress. People lose faith in each other, and the result is more fractured societies.
DPM Lawrence Wong on the need for an inclusive progress at the IPS 35th Anniversary Conference on 12 June 2023
Wide view of stage, with panelists

Key shifts in refreshing our social compact

Guest asking the panel a question

Keeping the Singapore story going

...if we all do our part, we can be assured that we, too, will benefit when others feel a deeper sense of responsibility towards us and towards our society. We can then sustain, hopefully, a virtuous circle of uplift, progress, and confidence; and we can strengthen our solidarity and trust as a nation. As a whole, our society will grow stronger and fairer; more just and more united.
DPM Lawrence Wong rallying Singaporeans to do their part at the IPS 35th Anniversary Conference on 12 June 2023
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