TR EMERITUS

The PAP's twin policies of pursuing globalisation and striving to become the world's pre-eminent financial centre has not benefited ordinary Singaporeans. In fact, such an approach has caused wealth disparity to widen. A society polarised by wealth and poverty not only affects economic performance by slowing down growth and... 

Prof Lim Chong Yah Two misconceptions of ER I Permit me to clear up two fallacies on Economic Restructuring I (ER I), now euphemistically termed Shock Therapy I (1979-81). One is that some learned and responsible opinion claimed that ER I was not successful. Official statistics show that Singapore had an average of 6.4-per-cent... 

Here are five reasons why the exploitation of low-wage migrant workers hurts Singaporeans’ interests. Wages are depressed When employers get away with paying extremely low wages, or worse, promising low wages, but in actual fact paying even less than that through all sorts of illegal deductions, there is a general lowering...