2014/15 IPS-Nathan Lectures: Lecture II (Economy and Business)

No economic forecasting can cover both the known unknowns and unknown unknowns for the next 50 years. We return to fundamentals and question whether the basic strategy for Singapore’s success in the past – leveraging off the Three L’s of Location, Land, and Labour – are still valid, especially the role of manufacturing when other city-states have moved entirely into services provision. Then, a few sacred cows or below-the-radar issues which will impact on the very long term future of business and the economy are examined in more detail. These include the need for a more integrated immigration and foreign worker policy, changes to the education, land and housing policies, the need for new indices of economic well-being, and the creation of an innovation-attracting social environment.


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Media Coverage

• The Straits Times. 2014. Housing price caps? Idea has limits: Experts. 15 November
• The Straits Times. 2014. Bosses back idea on use of foreign worker levies. 14 November
• Channel 8 News. 2014. 何光平：建屋局应考虑退出组屋发展领域. 11月13日
• 联合早报. 2014. 何光平：应考虑逐渐退出发展组屋　建屋局今后可着重监控房价与规划土地. 11月13日
• Mothership.sg. 2014. 5 ideas from Ho Kwon Ping’s second IPS-Nathan Lecture that will make the government go “sure or not”?. 13 November
  
• The Straits Times. 2014. Inclusive culture ‘vital for attracting innovation’: Ho Kwon Ping. 13 November
• The Straits Times. 2014. S’pore ‘must get creative’ on housing, income inequality. 13 November
• The Straits Times. 2014. The next 50 years of Singapore’s economy. 13 November
• Channel NewsAsia. 2014. HDB must evolve from current role: Ho Kwon Ping. 12 November