SMU students are so keen to take up internships that some are going on up to six during their four years of study – even though they are required to do only one. One in 10 go overseas to gain…
SMU graduate Suhaimi Sudar is one of the recipients of the Singapore Maritime Academy (SMA)–MaritimeOne Scholarship. He chose to join the maritime sector because of the attractive career prospects.
In a commentary on the pace of economic restructuring in Singapore, Han Fook Kwang quoted SMU Professor of Economics (Practice) Augustine Tan as questioning in an earlier published article the policy…
SMU Professor of Economics (Practice) Augustine Tan is one of the economists who advocate a "pause in the helter-skelter drive towards the holy grail of higher productivity and high wages", as they…
Commenting on the recent announcement of the Singapore Public Sector Outcomes Review by the Ministry of Finance on Thursday, SMU Professor of Economics (Practice) Augustine Tan pointed out that the…
SMU Professor of Economics Shurojit Chatterji designs mechanisms that countries can use to allocate their scarce resources more fairly and efficiently. In mechanism design, researchers investigate…
Assistant Professor of Economics Christine Ho studies, evaluates and designs family-focused policies such as childcare subsidies. Assistant Prof Ho explained that governments may provide childcare…
In a commentary on Singapore’s economic restructuring previously published in The Straits Times, SMU Professor of Economics (Practice) Augustine Tan warned that there could be a repeat of the…
SMU Professor of Economics (Practice) Augustine Tan, who had drawn parallels with the restructuring efforts of the early 1980s which contributed to a recession, was one of the economists cited by the…
SMU Professor of Economics (Practice) Augustine Tan raised the issue of whether there is a need to re-examine the progressive wage model given the current situation of slow productivity growth…