Singapore and the Strange Tale of Population Control Policies
Truth is stranger than fiction. And weird things happen when governments decide to help you decide how many children you can have. Take Singapore, for instance. The island nation, after gaining its independence from Malaysia in 1965 had a total fertility rate (children born per woman) north of 4.7 (down from 5.41 in 1960)....
Private home prices continue to climb in Q3
Private home prices in Singapore continue to climb, with the Urban Redevelopment Authority’s (URA) flash estimates for the residential price index reflecting a 0.5 percent increase quarter-on-quarter in Q3 2012 to another record high of 208.0. The Core Central (CCR), Rest of Central (RCR) and Outside Central (OCR) regions...
Minimum Wage – The Necessity for Capitalism
Recently, there is a discussion on minimum wage in one of the public forums on income disparity/ gap. Well, the headline put up by Singapolitics screamed "Minimum Wage is not the solution to wealth gap". Within this report, it was reported that Minimum Wage dominates the forum while Nicole Seah reported said, "If we were to...
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