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The Institute of Policy Studies has released two instalments of a three-part series reviewing salient findings on Singapore from the 2020 World Values Survey (WVS). The WVS is the largest non-commercial, cross-national, and time-series survey of public attitudes and values globally. Spanning 80 countries and currently in its seventh iteration, the WVS seeks to study individuals' changing values across polities and their impact on social and political life.
The first and second instalments, titled “Our Singaporean Values” and “Attitudes towards Institutions, Politics, and Policies” were released on 3 February and 23 March 2021 respectively. The third and final instalment will be released next month.
Articles
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Commentary — Understanding the ire and intricacies of immigration in Singapore
(TODAY)
By Mathew Mathews and Melvin Tay
• 4-min read
Last week, an Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) report found that seven in 10 of the 2020 World Values Survey’s (WVS) 2,000-odd respondents in Singapore favoured placing strict limits on the number of foreigners entering the country for work. IPS' Mathew Mathews and Melvin Tay explore the implications of this in TODAY.
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Op-ed — Rivers of peace and rivers of conflict
(The Straits Times)
By Tommy Koh
• 6-min read
IPS' Special Advisor Prof Tommy Koh and co-author Daniel Kang take us through a list of international rivers that flow through more than one country. They urge China and Myanmar to consider joining the 1995 Mekong Agreement, and for riparian states to make sure that their building of dams do not cause significant harm to other states.
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Commentary — The Jigsaw Puzzle of Social Inclusion
(The AlumNUS)
By Justin Lee
• 5-min read
It is said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Thus, efforts to create a society that promotes diversity need to be carefully thought out — or may end up doing more harm than good, argues IPS’ Dr Justin Lee.
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Commentary — The environment is here and now
(IPS Commons)
By Asad Latif
• 2-min read
More than three in five Singaporean respondents polled in an IPS study released last month believed that protecting the environment should enjoy priority over economic growth. Younger, more educated and more affluent respondents were more likely to feel that way. What might stand in the way of more elderly thinking like the young? Asad Latif explores this in his latest IPS Commons piece.
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