S Vasoo S Vasoo - Critical Issues in Asset Building in Singapores Development

Critical Issues in Asset Building in Singapores Development

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Critical Issues in Asset Building in Singapores Development

Editors

S Vasoo

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Bilveer Singh

National University of Singapore, Singapore

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Vasoo, S., editor. | Singh, Bilveer, 1956 editor. |

Sherraden, Michael W. (Michael Wayne), 1948 Challenges in asset building in Singapore.

Title: Critical issues in asset building in Singapores development / [edited by]

S. Vasoo, Bilveer Singh.

Description: New Jersey : World Scientific, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018016255 | ISBN 9789813239753 (hardcover)

Subjects: LCSH: Singapore--Social policy. | Human capital--Singapore. |

Human services--Singapore. | Public administration--Singapore.

Classification: LCC HN700.67.A8 C75 2018 | DDC 306.095957--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018016255

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About the Contributors

Hongbo Jia has a PhD in Economics. Currently he is an Associate Professor and the Deputy Director of the Social Security Institute of Beihang University. His primary area of expertise is public administration, and his research focuses on the reform of pension, medical insurance and health care system in China. As a Visiting Scholar, he worked at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2010 and at the Australian National University (ANU) from 2014 to 2015.

Ching Leong is Assistant Professor and the Co-Director of the Institute of Water Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (NUS). Leongs work lies in making sense of apparently irrational environmental behaviour, whether poor decision-making relating to water use in households, risk taking in drinking recycled water, investing in water utilities, to building dams and managing rivers. She uses narratives, perceptions and stories to understand collective public behaviour, and how these provide elements of environmental identities. Her research is premised on the idea that an environmental identity emotionally and cognitively connects an individuals perceptions, beliefs, values and habits with elements of the natural environment. Leong has a PhD in Public Policy from NUS and graduate degrees in philosophy, information technology and journalism. She had previously worked as a newspaper and television reporter.

Bernard F.W. Loo is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Master of Science (Strategic Studies) degree programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University. He completed his doctoral studies at the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 2002. He is the author of Medium Powers and Accidental Wars: A Study in Conventional Strategic Stability (Edwin Mellen, 2005). His edited volume, Military Transformation and Operations (Routledge, 2009), was translated into complex Chinese for the Taiwanese military. His other publications have appeared in the Journal of Strategic Studies, Contemporary Southeast Asia, NIDS Security Reports, and Taiwan Defense Affairs. He is a regular commentator on defence matters, and his commentaries have appeared in The Straits Times (Singapore), The Nation (Thailand), and The New Straits Times (Malaysia). He has been invited to speak at a variety of defence-related institutions and conferences in China, Estonia, Finland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines and Taiwan. His research interests encompass defence policy, war studies, strategic theory, conventional military strategies, strategic challenges of small and medium powers, and problems and prospects of military transformation.

Irene Y.H. Ng is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work and Director, Social Service Research Centre at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore. She holds a joint PhD in Social Work and Economics from the University of Michigan. Her research areas include poverty and inequality, intergenerational mobility, youth crime, and social welfare policy. Her research projects include an evaluation of a national Work Support programme; National Youth Surveys 2010, 2013 and 2017; a study of low-income households with debt; and an evaluation of Social Service Offices. She is active in the community, serving or having served in committees in the Ministry of Social and Family Development, National Council of Social Service, Ministry of Manpower, and various voluntary welfare organisations. Her teaching areas include poverty, policy, welfare economics, youth work, and programme planning.

Norshahril Saat, PhD is a Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)-Yusof Ishak Institute. In June 2015, he was awarded a PhD in International, Political and Strategic Studies by the Australian National University (ANU). He is a recipient of the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (MUIS) Post-graduate Scholarship 2011. In 2015, he became the first recipient of Syed Isa Semait Scholarship (SISS), the highest honour for a MUIS scholar. His research interests are mainly on Southeast Asian politics and contemporary Islamic thought. In 2018, he published The State, Ulama and Islam in Malaysia and Indonesia (Amsterdam University Press), and his other earlier books include Faith, Authority and the Malays: The Ulama in Contemporary Singapore; and Yusof Ishak: Singapores First President