We are all familiar with the Singapore Story – the country-equivalent of a rags-to-riches story. In slightly more than one generation, Singapore rapidly moved up the ranks from being Third World to First World.  

At the individual and familial level, the Singapore Story is experienced as upward social mobility, rising from poverty or low income to middle-class status.


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Tan Ern Ser is academic adviser at the Social Lab at the Institute of Policy Studies.
Sim Kai Lin is a research associate at the same Institute.

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