SMU Professor of Economics Hoon Hian Teck gave his take on the impact of the Budget announced last Friday and wrote that the 2012 Budget, in essence, recognises that Singapore is now making a…
Professor Jun Yu from the SMU School of Economics and Lee Kong Chian School of Business commented on the US current economic situation and whether there is ground for further monetary easing, after…
The median monthly income of Singaporeans rose to $3,070 last June, up from $2,887 the year before. That was an increase of 6.3 per cent. SMU economist Hoon Hian Teck said that the data could…
Davin Chor, Assistant Professor of the School of Economics answers the question, “Given the current global economic outlook, what can SMEs do to adapt to the uncertain and volatile environment? Where…
A review of a speech by [SMU Chairman] Mr Ho Kwon Ping at an Institute of Policy Studies seminar this month. He argued that the wages of workers in the services sector lag behind others' because of…
Singapore’s vaunted style of pragmatic, efficient government – credited with fueling the city-state’s meteoric rise to prosperity over the last four decades – may have lost some verve. As decades of…
Singapore companies expect to continue hiring in spite of the poor global economic outlook, according to a survey by Kelly Services. However, unemployment may creep up if Singapore’s economic growth…
According to Kelly Services, the best option for firms would be to keep 80% of their staff as permanent employees and the remaining on a flexible work regime given the ongoing uncertainty in the…
The SKBI-MasterCard Singapore Index of Inflation Expectations, which was jointly developed by Dr Aurobindo GHOSH and Professor Jun YU from SMU Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics, and…
A new index to track the general public's perception of how prices change was launched yesterday by MasterCard and SMU. The first of its kind here, the Singapore Index of Inflation Expectations (…