Singapore Ranked 60th for Average Resident Cost of Living by ACI (

[winnipegjets]

who is ACI?????? - hahhahahahahahhahhaaarrrrhhhhhhhh


http://www.lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/ACI/

http://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/aci/about-aci

About ACI

The Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) was established in August 2006 as a research centre at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), National University of Singapore (NUS). It aims to build the intellectual leadership and network for understanding and developing competitiveness in the ASEAN region.
ACI seeks to contribute to the enhancement of economic growth and living standards through competitiveness research on clusters and comparative regions. It identifies mitigating issues and challenges for potential policy interventions.

ACI’s value proposition may be encapsulated in its acronym:

Analytical inputs to develop policies for leaders and policy-makers in ASEAN, China and the rest of Asia

Capacity building to enable others

Intellectual leadership to create new models of competitiveness

The institute works in affiliation with Professor Michael E. Porter’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC) at Harvard Business School. Professor Porter is also the Chairman of the institute’s International Advisory Panel that guides and advises on its strategic direction. Leveraging on ISC’s competitiveness concepts, data and analytical tools, ACI seeks to achieve its mission through research, outreach, and education.

Vision and Mission

The over-arching vision of ACI is to build up its research credibility with policy impact, contributing as a professional think-tank.
The mission is to establish our niche as a leading policy think-tank in Asia by identifying competitiveness, promoting competition and synergizing complementarities amongst Asian economies.
We would articulate, entice discourse and shape agenda on arena of public policies amongst Asian governments.
We would undertake evidence-base assessment on public policy outcomes, their effectiveness and inclusive impacts.
Two key regional focuses are:
Identify trends of competitiveness and policy analysis on trade and investment of ASEAN, within the regional context of competition and complementarities with China and India.
Identify competitive strengths and conduct policy analysis on Singapore within the context of regional economies with international benchmarking.

That's why they have set up all these 'think tanks' ...to be asked to publish propaganda in the guise of academic research to counter any adverse studies on sinkapore.

 

[Leongsam]

Boss Sam

Your table shows average salary, while I mentioned manager salary of S$4-6k (USD3.5-5.0k).

Also the unhappiness in citizens is not caused by ridiculous expectations.
In fact it is caused by unfair treatment, gov. policies, rules and regulations.

For example: -
1) FTs were seldom punished, but locals are heavily penalized just for very small offences.
2) Allow FTs to recruit their own people at work. Can easily see certain dept. turns into their own village.
3) Allow FTs to own many properties (without asking where those money come from), but locals are tied with HDB regulations.
4) Some definitions of the laws twisted and caused lots of unhappiness, e.g. within and inside, loan and give etc.

The term "Manager" means nothing in this day and age. The title is given in order to add a bit of prestige to the job. USD3.5K to 5K is an excellent salary. If you don't believe me, go to http://www.leastof.org/createyourown and enter USD5K x 13 and you'll get the following result :

You are in the wealthiest 1.2% of people in the world. There are 6,523,637,383 (more than 6.5 billion) people less wealthy than you. You are 85 times wealthier than a billion people. (A billion people earn less than $762 a year).

As for FTs being punished less severely, that is just a perception not reality.

FTs may be recruiting their own people at work but Singaporeans can do exactly the same thing if they want to.

Singaporeans are allowed to buy many properties overseas too without the authorities asking where the money comes from.

As for laws causing unhappiness it is the same everywhere in the world. When people are caught on the wrong side of the law, they always assume that they have been treated unfairly or singled out for punishment when it is not the case. That's just human nature.

 

[blackmondy]

who is ACI?????? - hahhahahahahahhahhaaarrrrhhhhhhhh

Anyhow Compile Information

 

[greenies]

Anyhow Compile Information

Ha ha... a good one and very suitable one.

 

[greenies]

The term "Manager" means nothing in this day and age. The title is given in order to add a bit of prestige to the job. USD3.5K to 5K is an excellent salary. If you don't believe me, go to http://www.leastof.org/createyourown and enter USD5K x 13 and you'll get the following result :



As for FTs being punished less severely, that is just a perception not reality.

FTs may be recruiting their own people at work but Singaporeans can do exactly the same thing if they want to.

Singaporeans are allowed to buy many properties overseas too without the authorities asking where the money comes from.

As for laws causing unhappiness it is the same everywhere in the world. When people are caught on the wrong side of the law, they always assume that they have been treated unfairly or singled out for punishment when it is not the case. That's just human nature.

1) With US$3.5-5.0k per month, do you think we can survive and live comfortable in Sinkie land?
2) Why should we allow FTs to recruit and build their own village in Singapore? Is there any benefit to the ordinary folks? I saw the salary scales dropped like stone falling from the sky.
3) Many incidents proved FTs got advantages while breaking the laws here. Lucky that we have on-line media and can learn first handed news. Otherwise we are still at dark without knowing so many dirty incidents.
4) Sinkies owing properties overseas have to declare. If not you will be heavily punished as tax avoidance. We have to be afraid of our gov. where riches from China, Indo, India, even Myanmar do not need to worry about their own gov.

 

[Leongsam]

1) With US$3.5-5.0k per month, do you think we can survive and live comfortable in Sinkie land?
2) Why should we allow FTs to recruit and build their own village in Singapore? Is there any benefit to the ordinary folks? I saw the salary scales dropped like stone falling from the sky.
3) Many incidents proved FTs got advantages while breaking the laws here. Lucky that we have on-line media and can learn first handed news. Otherwise we are still at dark without knowing so many dirty incidents.
4) Sinkies owing properties overseas have to declare. If not you will be heavily punished as tax avoidance. We have to be afraid of our gov. where riches from China, Indo, India, even Myanmar do not need to worry about their own gov.

1. Yes life is very comfortable with USD3.5 to 5K per month. You get water, electricity, a decent roof over your head, peace, security, entertainment, a good education system, good healthcare and pretty much everything anyone could wish for.

2. FTs are doing what all migrants do. For example when the Chinese first arrived in Singapore they employed their fellow Chinamen too. They did not employ the Malays or the Indians. This is quite normal.

3. Isolated incidents quoted do not mean anything. There are many instances where Singaporeans have been treated very leniently. It all depends upon the judge and how he views the case. It has nothing to do with nationality. Example a Singaporean hit a cyclist and drove off. She was just fined https://www.facebook.com/pages/Peti...Ping-to-be-Jailed-for-HIT-RUN/163658040336536

4. Singaporeans buying property in NZ don't have to declare where their funds came from up to 4 years from their arrival date. That gives plenty of time to buy multiple properties with funds from dubious sources. Many countries provide a similar window. It is not unique to Singapore.

 

[bakkuttay]

3. Isolated incidents quoted do not mean anything.

now you know how to say isolated cases do not mean anything.

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[Papsmearer]

ACI - All Crap Information

 

[greenies]

1. Yes life is very comfortable with USD3.5 to 5K per month. You get water, electricity, a decent roof over your head, peace, security, entertainment, a good education system, good healthcare and pretty much everything anyone could wish for.

If you say like that, then TW, HK, Japan, S. Korea, even Thailand have decent living. They do not need to worry about electricity, water, roof, entertainment, education etc.

2. FTs are doing what all migrants do. For example when the Chinese first arrived in Singapore they employed their fellow Chinamen too. They did not employ the Malays or the Indians. This is quite normal.

In the past, those Chinese immigrants create population growth and economic prosperity as well.
At this present time, the new immigrants by tonnes of load create social problems as well as depressing effect on local earning.
Thus the events and timeline are not EQUAL.

3. Isolated incidents quoted do not mean anything. There are many instances where Singaporeans have been treated very leniently. It all depends upon the judge and how he views the case. It has nothing to do with nationality. Example a Singaporean hit a cyclist and drove off. She was just fined https://www.facebook.com/pages/Peti...Ping-to-be-Jailed-for-HIT-RUN/163658040336536

Ha ha, she is a rich lady drove Lexus ES300. We learnt that riches, elites and members have privileges.

4. Singaporeans buying property in NZ don't have to declare where their funds came from up to 4 years from their arrival date. That gives plenty of time to buy multiple properties with funds from dubious sources. Many countries provide a similar window. It is not unique to Singapore.

But here we need to declare our assets overseas. Otherwise we will be punished.
Thus our hands are tied.