Singapore General Elections 2020: Economic Growth and Social Welfare

The PPE Podcast

In this special podcast episode, we speak to Bryan Cheang, founder of the Adam Smith Centre, and Donovan Choy, an economics research fellow and policy analyst. With the Singapore General Elections underway, the issues run the gamut – income inequality, social welfare, climate change and the GST suspension. Political parties have taken polarised stances and we carefully consider the merits and dangers of the propositions from both sides of the aisle. Notably, we explore some of the underlying research, including the minimum wage paper by Card and Krueger, which have informed the opposition's policy-making. Bryan and Donovan weigh in on these issues with exclusive insights from their forthcoming book, Liberalism Unveiled: The New Third Way in Singapore.