SMU Economics graduate Seumas Yeo is part of the five-member Alumnaid Team Singapore Everest, which had to cut short its bid to become the third Singapore team to scale Mount Everest due to an…
In his weekly commentary, SMU Adjunct Faculty Larry Haverkamp wrote about MediShield Life and whether it makes a better deal than integrated plans (IPs) offered by private insurers. He compared the…
SMU Economics undergraduate Kimberly Chan is part of a sibling duo competing in the national diving team in the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games 2015. Both Kimberley and her younger brother Jonathan…
SMU Economics graduate Seumas Yeo was among the three members of Singapore’s Everest team to arrive home on May 4, after a massive earthquake in Nepal on April 25 ended the team's dream of scaling…
In a commentary, SMU Professor of Economics (Practice) Augustine Tan wrote about nine important factors to Singapore’s productivity growth. These include avoiding penalising productive sectors and…
In his weekly commentary, SMU Adjunct Faculty Larry Haverkamp wrote about Greece being the big event of the week that is likely to influence stock markets and world economies. On the Greek debts, Dr…
SMU graduate Seumas Yeo was one of the members of the Aluminaid Team Singapura Everest 2015. Three members were at Everest Base Camp when Nepal was hit by an earthquake. Seumas had been evacuated to…
In his weekly commentary, SMU Adjunct Faculty Larry Haverkamp wrote about the factors to consider for people interested in forex trading. These include the Purchasing Power Parity, in which exchange…
SMU Professor of Economics Phang Sock Yong noted that public housing is “one of the greatest social policy successes” in Singapore’s history, and that this view is supported by the latest Housing…
SMU Associate Professor Ho Kong Weng studies the driving forces and trends underlying socioeconomic mobility in Singapore.
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By Grace Chua
SMU…