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Podcast: Consider This
Episode: Consider This: Welfare (Part 2) - Problems Before the MCO
Description: The lockdown - MCO - put all social systems under extraordinary stress but the problems the report highlights predate the pandemic. When it comes to solutions or mitigation efforts, should we be looking at transforming the system so that social safety nets are systematic and sustained? Melisa Idris and Sharaad Kuttan speak to Stephen Barrett, Chief of Social Policy at UNICEF Malaysia.