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PAP prepares for 10 million population white paper!

GoldenPeriod

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Minister of Social and Family Development (MSF), Chan Chun Sing, threw up a new figure in the debate on population yesterday.

Speaking at the Economic Society of Singapore (ESS) annual dinner, Mr Chan cautioned that while various population figures have been suggested as optimum or necessary to sustain Singapore’s economic growth, “a lot depends on how attractive people find us as a place to work and live.”

When asked by the event’s moderator, Yeoh Lam Keong, president of the ESS, what he thought was the suitable population size for Singapore, Mr Chan said:

“Will it be 10 million? Will it be less or more? Nobody knows.”
 
Agoraphobic

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Does not matter whether it 6.9, 8 or 10 million. Singapore is already crowded.

Unless there is a new economic model to replace the current one, the concept of economic success will always be led by "growth." Under the prevailing system, I dare anybody working in the private (or government) sector to propose to their bosses that no more growth is needed, and that we can be happy with what we have. Your state leaders are all scholastic experts, they have been groomed to abide by the lessons they learned at school. Sorry.

Cheers!
 
zhihau

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GoldenPeriod said:
Speaking at the Economic Society of Singapore (ESS) annual dinner, Mr Chan cautioned that while various population figures have been suggested as optimum or necessary to sustain Singapore’s economic growth, “a lot depends on how attractive people find us as a place to work and live.”
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Singapore will be a very attractive place when the MIW jiak liao bees are voted out :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:
 
tanwahp

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GoldenPeriod said:
Speaking at the Economic Society of Singapore (ESS) annual dinner, Mr Chan cautioned that while various population figures have been suggested as optimum or necessary to sustain Singapore’s economic growth, “a lot depends on how attractive people find us as a place to work and live.”
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You mean the government cannot control the number of people coming in and anyone can just ask for entry into the country? What kind of government if that was the case.
 
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