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What has Shinzo Abe’s signature ‘Abenomics’ achieved?

by Etienne BALMER When Japan’s Shinzo Abe took office in 2012, he…

MOM should also capture, record, and publish data on employees retrenched from micro-SMEs for greater transparency

by Professor Sattar Bawany The Ministry of Manpower’s (MOM) advance labour market…

SG gov’t projects a decrease of 5-7% in 2020’s GDP growth – is that too optimistic?

On Tuesday (11 August), the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) announced…

MTI lowers Singapore’s growth forecast; country enters worst recession since independence

Singapore has entered its worst recession in 55 years as the Government…

Indonesia’s economic growth contracts by 5.32 per cent in Q2 2020. What’s next?

JAKARTA, INDONESIA — Indonesia’s economic growth contracted by 5.32 per cent in…

Netizen calls out Critical Spectator for its misleading post about Jamus Lim’s quote of economic theory

A netizen called out commentator Facebook page Critical Spectator for its misleading…

Academician Linda Lim: Progressive Wage Model does not address problem of low labour productivity, wage stagnation due to “widespread cheap sourcing”

The Progressive Wage Model (PWM) does not address the core issue of…

S’pore, South Korea entering recession—what should Indonesia do?

Singapore and South Korea have announced that they are entering an economic…

Elected WP MP Jamus Lim will be part of the Economic Society of Singapore’s council

Jamus Lim, elected Member of Parliament (MP) from the Workers’ Party (WP)…

DBS CEO foresees real challenge for SMEs in globally, says pandemic-induced economic pain could be worse than predicted

The coronavirus pandemic-induced economic pain may be worse than predicted, said the…