​SSS in the News | How poverty tends to trap people into making poor decisions

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Weighed down by a scarcity mindset and tunnel vision, the poor are at risk of making choices that feed the poverty cycle. As the margin of error for people living on the margins tends to be slim, NTU sociologist Assoc Prof Sulfikar Amir believes that only with a resilient social structure would the consequences of their mistakes not worsen their economic outlook.

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