We welcome long-form research papers or theses on Singapore’s policies. Research papers also include a 1-2 page executive summary.
Singapore has enjoyed rapid growth since independence, due in part to the hard choices made by the government regarding economics and politics. Agnes Chew’s research explores some of the costs of growth, and raises questions about the sustainability of the current growth paradigm as it relates to societal wellbeing.
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Public spaces are under appreciated in their impact on society, Nur Atiqa Asri writes. Based on her evaluations of public spaces in Singapore regularly used by migrant workers, she argues that democratizing our public spaces can help address the emerging fault lines between migrant workers and locals in Singapore’s social fabric.
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Jia Hui Lin writes that rideshare drivers need better social protection. She presents her findings from 68 interviews with Singaporean Uber and Grab drivers, and argues that drivers need more flexible savings options.
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BY SINGAPORE POLICY JOURNAL Education policy in Singapore has attracted much attention of late. In the recent parliamentary speeches, Ms
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Singapore has the highest Gini coefficient (after taxes and transfers) – the measure of income inequality – in the developed
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Every day across the world, we waste, pollute, and mismanage freshwater resources. With the global population growing – mostly in
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Singapore’s citizen population is shrinking. A Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of 2.1 would allow the population to stabilize – our
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