Wealth disparity Part 3: What we can, and must, do
The PAP's twin policies of pursuing globalisation and striving to become the world's pre-eminent financial centre has not benefited ordinary Singaporeans. In fact, such an approach has caused wealth disparity to widen. A society polarised by wealth and poverty not only affects economic performance by slowing down growth and...
Singapore ranks how high in trust?
Those of you old enough will remember the Shared Values that was launched with much fanfare in the early 1990s. Mr Lee Hsien Loong, then a junior minister, headed a committee that was tasked to come up with a set of beliefs that would form the basis of a national ideology. Sort of like the usual PAP propaganda but on steroids. The...
Wealth disparity Part 2: How did we come to this?
In 2008, I wrote about Singapore becoming a financial centre and how the Government was going about developing this country as a tax haven. (See Singapore's future as a financial centre Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3) Tax havens are economies that attract wealthy individuals and corporations by offering low or even no taxation....
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