Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Saturday, 16 May 2020

Singapore's Achilles heel: foreign workers?

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Singapore's foreign workforce has been in the news lately. It seems to happen every so often – generally for the wrong reasons. ...
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Thursday, 2 April 2020

Corona Covid-19 pandemic: death knell for the post-war world order?

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Once upon a time the world – or at least the Free World - was led by Reagan, Thatcher and Mitterand. Leaders with presence, standi...
Sunday, 22 September 2019

Pakistan's Kashmir obsession: unhealthy and unrealistic?

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As the Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan arrives in New York for the latest session of the United Nations General Assembly it's...
Saturday, 7 September 2019

Hong Kong: heading towards irrelevance?

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A few days ago a friend in the United States asked for my opinion on recent events in Hong Kong (HK). He prefaced his question with Chine...
Monday, 10 September 2018

PTI’s Khan panders to Islamists and Mr Chief Justice I can’t hear you now?

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Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-Insaf (PTI) government's recent collapse in facing down Islamist radicals over the appo...
Friday, 17 August 2018

Note to Pakistan’s economic managers: reforming tax collection techniques

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As the euphoria surrounding former cricket star Imran Khan’s election victory begins to fade in Pakistan, the country’s economic manage...
Monday, 17 August 2015

Singapore’s strategic challenge: SG50 to SG100

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SG50 celebrations are quickly fading from Singapore's collective memory. The mutual self-congratulations and laudatory speeches a...