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But first, why take IMF’s & other int’l bodies forecasts with a large pinch of salt Forecasting is not really the IMF’s forte, while pessimism is. Every growth forecast since 2009 for the UK economy has undershot the actual result, often by a significant margin. The warning of misery ahead is widely reported, but is... 

This suggested tight slap to PAP sure to work. Sad that it wouldn’t be administered. A TRE reader who is no cybernut wrote that losing five GRCs will make a GST rise unlikely. But that it wouldn’t happen because S’poreans don’t want Oppo running their wards. He’s right on both counts. And based on WP’s leaders behaviour... 

Singapore topped a World Bank Human Capital index that essentially measures certain societal outcomes like our mortality rates and how well our kids do in Maths and Science exams. Human capital for this ranking list refers to our education, health and mortality as that translates into our GDP or eventual economic success for...