Inequality in Singapore

Description About the Editor Income inequality has become a global phenomenon. Rapid technological advancement and an expanding global workforce will continue to place huge pressure on wages all over the world, including Singapore. This edited volume is the product of the robust exchanges that took place in a series of closed-door discussions (CDDs) on inequality that the Institute of Policy Studies organised in the first half of 2012. The essays provide a range of views on the multi-faceted nature of inequality in Singapore, discuss candidly the specific challenges we face, and offer some policy recommendations. Dr. Faizal Bin Yahya is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS. He was formerly a Faculty member at the South Asian Studies Programme, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at NUS. He was also a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. He has published three books and more than thirty peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters.