Tan Meng Wah

About Singapore:

• How Globalization and Influx of Foreign Workers Drive Inequality in SG

  • ​​Singapore's History of Incessant Economic Restructuring, 1 January 2011

  • Rising Inequality due to Emergence of Two-Speed Dual-Track Economy, 1 January, 2011

  • Inequality Exacerbated by Influx of Foreign Workers & Talents, 1 January, 2011

• Inequality in SG is Grossly Understated. Why?

  • Types of Inequality: Wage, Income and Wealth, 15 May, 2016

  • Different Ways of Calculating Gini Coefficient Using Different Types of Data, 15 May, 2016

  • How Gini Coefficient Understates Inequality in Singapore, 15 May, 2016

  • Thomas Picketty’s Theory on Income and Wealth Inequality, 15 May, 2016

  • Implications of Picketty's Theory on Income and Wealth Inequality in Singapore, 15 May, 2016

  • Singapore's Gilded Age, 31 October, 2018, 2016

• Singapore Needs a Minimum Wage. Why?

  • Lower-Rung Households in Low-Wage Trap,  19 November, 2018

  • Comparing Singapore's Wage System with that of the Neoliberal US and Social Democratic Sweden, 19 November, 2018

  • Wage Outcomes from the Three Wage Systems, 19 November, 2018

  • Why the Current Wage Model (PWM & WIS) Fall Short? 9 September 2019

  • Helping the Lower-Rung Households Escape the Low-Wage Trap, 19 November, 2018

• Rentierism & its History

  • What is Rentierism (Rentier Capitalism)?​  20 June 2019

  • The Rise of Rentierism under Feudalism & Serfdom (5th - 18th Century)  20 June 2019

  • The Rise of Rentierism under Mercantilism (16th - 18th Century)  20 June 2019

  • The Rise of Rentierism under Economic Liberalism [Free Market Capitalism] (18th Century - 1939)  20 June 2019

  • The Retreat of Rentierism under Embedded Liberalism [Keynesianism & Welfarism] (1945 - 1970s)  20 June 2019

  • The Return of Rentierism under Neoliberalism [Market Fundamentalism] (1980s - 2010s)  20 June 2019

  • Rentierism in the 21st Century - The Gig Economy  20 June 2019

• Singapore's State Rentierism & its Impacts on Inequality​

  • Rise of State Rentierism to Extract Rising Land Dividend  11 September 2019​

  • Extracting Land Dividend Through Public Housing  11 September 2019​

  • How much Household Wealth is Transferred to the State through Public Housing?  11 September 2019​

  • Extracting Land Dividend from Retail, Commercial and Industrial Properties through the REITs  11 September 2019​

  • REITs' Rent-Seeking Drives up Business and Living Costs  11 September 2019​

  • Key Elements of Government’s Land Dividend Extraction Strategy  11 September 2019​

  • Policies Supporting Government’s Land Dividend Extraction Strategy 11 September 2019​

• The Long Term Solution to the High Housing Costs​

  • More Housing Grants is no Solution to the High Housing Cost Problem  18 September 2019

  • Stopping the Wealth transfer by Deferring Land Cost Payment  18 September 2019

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About Europe and the US:

• Why Northern Europe is more egalitarian and its people are happier. Why? 9 April, 2019

  • Phase I: The Evolution from Feudalism & Serfdom to Liberal Constitutionalism

  • Phase II: The Rise of Social Democracy

  • Phase III: The Tussles between Social Democracy & Neoliberalism

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