Assistant Professor Davin Chor writes jointly in a commentary that by investing in education without providing sufficient economic opportunities, the Arab autocrats contributed greatly to the…
SMU alumna Joyce Hooi, a Singapore Press Holdings scholar with double degrees in business management and economics, is now a financial journalist with The Business Times and was chosen in 2009 as the…
With foreign workers, making up about one-third of our current workforce, the question that has inevitably been raised is how well they are performing in relation to Singaporeans. Economics assistant…
Last month, a review of secondary school education recommended that schools strengthen student-teacher bonds in the next few years. YouthInk writers discuss how they want their teachers to get to…
A research project that aims to study the effectiveness of financial education on foreign maids will kick off next month. The project, led by Assistant Professor of Economics Rashmi Barua and funded…
SMU economics professor Augustine Tan argued that a minimum wage would distract from the main issue: raising skills and productivity. On the other side of the fence, businessman and [SMU chairman] Ho…
On Dec 1, Dr Terence Kealey, vice chancellor of the University of Buckingham, suggested the Singapore Government should stop funding universities except for expensive courses such as medicine. Ernest…
As Singapore's economy powers ahead at full steam this year, the income gap between the top and bottom earners continues to widen. Professor Augustine Tan, an economics professor at the SMU comments…
Ernest Tan, a first-year economics student at SMU, suggested using the mass media to raise awareness of anorexia and recommends that the local media educate viewers about the consequences of anorexia…
Like academics as well as prominent citizens such as Professor Tommy Koh and [SMU chairman] Mr Ho Kwon Ping, SMU Professor of Economics (Practice) Augustine Tan is concerned about the widening income…
