TR EMERITUS

It’s been a few days into the parliamentary debate over the controversial Population White Paper and we have heard how PAP Members of Parliament (MPs) presented their views, ranging from the strong objection of Inderjit Singh to the near total endorsement of Mah Bow Tan, not to mention the usual scaremongering (businesses... 

Taking issue with WP's proposal to go for slower GDP growth during today's Parliament session, you warned that this would mean a reduction in the corresponding total workforce growth of 0.5 per cent per annum for the next two decades. This, you said, was drastic as businesses were already decrying the current restrictions imposed... 

One academic pointed out that the entire white paper has no reference section to show the research the paper is based on - even a student thesis needs to substantiate its findings with existing research. I will tell you what this is the case later on. The paper set the wrong priorities putting GDP growth not the well being...