World Bank Human Capital Ranking vs. Oxfam Inequality Index
Singapore topped a World Bank Human Capital index that essentially measures certain societal outcomes like our mortality rates and how well our kids do in Maths and Science exams. Human capital for this ranking list refers to our education, health and mortality as that translates into our GDP or eventual economic success for...
Uniquely Temasek? Kill Mandai wildlife to build wildlife paradise
This headline in our constructive, nation-building media on Monday Mandai mangrove and mudflats to be Singapore’s newest nature park reminded of a BBC story a few months back headlined Singapore’s Mandai eco-resort: Paving paradise to put up an eco-resort Singaporeans are getting a new wildlife paradise to bring them closer...
Why does PAP Minister Lee attack the Oxfam survey when the picture in his own backyard is not so pretty?
I take strong issue with what Desmond Lee said in response to the recent Oxfam survey findings on inequity worldwide and Singapore's ranking in it. To begin, Oxfam is a credible non-governmental organisation established since 1942 whose work governments and corporations look up to and take notice of. Otherwise, PAP minister...
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