Daily Archives: 2013-03-25
Budget surplus: $3.9b or $36b?
By Terry Xu
2013-03-25 
0Last updated on October 19th, 2015 at 06:38 pmBy NG (Concern citizen) and Leong Sze Hian According to the Singapore government’s latest budget statement , the government’s budget surplus was SGD 3.86 bn (SGD 3.61 bn before Net Investment Return Contribution (NIRC) and Read More
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ITE students’ real growth in spending minus 1% p.a. last 14 years?
By Terry Xu 2013-03-25 0Last updated on October 19th, 2015 at 06:38 pmBy Leong Sze Hian I refer to the Ministry of Education’s (MOE) Education Statistics Digest 2012. Expenditure per ITE student: – 1% p.a. increase? Government Recurrent Expenditure on Education per Student for ITE grew from $10,586 to $11,914, Read More
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Published on 2013-03-25 by Terry Xu
Perhaps 'Lowly Skilled' Workers are too lowly paid?
By Terry XuBy Terry Xu A news article writes – “Singapore is too fixated on producing professional, managerial, executive and technician (PMET) jobs for Singaporeans, and this mindset creates a problem”, said economics professor Linda Lim at a population-policy forum. I would like to ask Read More
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