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Last week the MAS issued its macroeconomic review in which it stated that economic growth is expected to slow to 2.5% to 3% but labour productivity…. oops fell! This comes five years since the productivity drive began. A few days before, the Straits Times had this headline: “Foreign worker curbs could hit Singapore's growth... 

HDB flats The economy in question is Germany according to this Forbes article published in Feb 2014 (http://www.forbes.com/sites/eamonnfingleton/2014/02/02/in-worlds-best-run-economy-home-prices-just-keep-falling-because-thats-what-home-prices-are-supposed-to-do/). The TRE Editor asked the writer if he could pen an opinion... 

Prof Hui Weng Tat In the TRE Editorial “Prof on NDR: CPF changes do not go far enough”, the writer provided a link (http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_protect/---protrav/---travail/documents/publication/wcms_244819.pdf) to International Labour Organisation 2014 research paper “Growth with equity in Singapore:...