There’s a need for the policy responses to the economic front to correspond more closely to the public health front in terms of urgency and stringency.
Breakthrough cases and high infectivity rate of variants could make vaccination targets to be underestimated, and threaten NRP indicators towards recovery.
Otherwise, graduate and youth unemployment and under-employment will increasingly become a part of our broader structural growth challenge in the years to come.
Moving on from regulatory incentive to focusing now on fiscal incentive (financial & tax) – for both “essential” and “non-essential” sectors and sub-sectors.