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The expansion of social safety nets in 20 years of PM Lee’s leadership

The signature achievements are the broadening of state support and community risk pooling to help individuals when they fall on hard times.

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The change can be summed up as one that transformed a mindset of individualistic competition to one that understands “we’re in it together”.

Making Singapore more inclusive and establishing it as a vibrant city were always key goals for PM Lee, said the writer.

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Living through an epoch sometimes means we are less aware of the changes taking place incrementally around us, until something makes us pause to take stock.

So it is with

20 years of Singapore under Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong

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