AN ANALYSIS OF INCOME INEQUALITY, SOCIAL SECURITY AND COMPETITIVENESS: AN ESSAY ON DR GOH KENG SWEE'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO SINGAPORE'S ECONOMIC STRATEGY

Chew Soon Beng and Rosalind Chew
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Chew Soon Beng: Division of Economics, HSS-04-74, 14 Nanyang Drive, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore-637332, Singapore

The Singapore Economic Review (SER), 2012, vol. 57, issue 01, 1-17

Abstract: Dr Goh Keng Swee has been credited as being the social and economic architect of Singapore. In his 25 years of government service, he served in a wide range of ministerial appointments, including Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, Minister of Defence and Minister of Education. This paper discusses a specific aspect of his contributions to Singapore's economic strategy, namely that of reducing income inequality without compromising competitiveness.

Keywords: Social security; Gini coefficient; income inequality; competitiveness; union social responsibility; macrofocused unions; H00; I38; J18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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