Fixing low fertility with immigration : A dangerous solution
"Like it or not, unless we have more babies, we need to accept immigrants," -Lee Kuan Yew, S'poreans have to understand need for immigrants: LKY When the population of Singapore was 2 million in 1970, Lee Kuan Yew felt that there were too many people and the fertility rate was too high and put in place a drastic social engineering...
It’s No Fun Being Poor But Is It Fun To Be The Highest Paid Politician?
This video report [Soaring prices hit Singapore's poor] by Al Jazeera was done in 2008. It's coming to 4 years since but are the poor in Singapore getting better today? In his recent interview with Fareed Zakaria [Link], PM Lee Hsien Loong said, "If you're poor in Singapore, it's no fun, but I think you're less badly off than...
You will not find many committed citizens among new immigrants
Immigrants or Babies. This is a false choice. The result of Singapore’s rapid growth in immigrant population has had a greater effect in maintaining the current rate of GDP growth than improving the welfare of our elderly or improving the environment for young Singaporeans to start families. Rather, Singaporeans find themselves...
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