2020/04/24 |
Taiwan's Response to Covid-19 Is a Lesson in Managing Risk
The Risk Governance Framework is a useful tool for evaluating Taiwan's management of the Covid-19 pandemic.
2020/08/19 |
Taiwan's Minimum Wage Increase Doesn't Go Far Enough
Taiwan’s proposed minimum wage increase is still lower than the minimum wage in countries with comparable GDPs per capita, what a plurality of Taiwanese think, and what Taiwan’s own political leaders say it should be.
2018/02/05 |
The Bitter Truth: Why Asia's Tigers Suffer while the Nordics Thrive (Part 1)
In the first of a 5 part series, Justin Hugo looks at how statistics suggesting the Asian Tiger economies have caught up with their Scandinavian counterparts mask a more sobering wage-based reality.
2018/02/09 |
The Bitter Truth: Why Asia's Tigers Suffer while the Nordics Thrive (Part 5)
Taiwan has outgrown its current economic strategy and needs to move up the value chain to become more like the Nordic countries and the Netherlands.
2020/08/03 |
Salary Showdown: Singapore's Prime Minister Tosses Opposition Leader A Few Crumbs
Singapore’s Prime Minister remains an extravagantly paid outlier.
2020/07/13 |
What Does Data Tell Us About Singapore’s General Elections?
Singapore's ruling People's Action Party has received one its weakest mandates ever. What does this mean for the opposition?
2018/11/27 |
OPINION: How the DPP Failed Its Supporters by Becoming Another KMT
In 2016, the DPP swept into power promising social progressivism and economic rejuvenation. So why does it now look like the KMT's B team?
2018/06/29 |
OPINION: On the Distorted Logic of Ministerial Salaries in Singapore
Singapore's prime minister arguably has less to deal with than his fellow national and municipal leaders, so why is he paid such astounding sums?
2017/09/06 |
It's Time to Return Taiwanese Workers What They Rightfully Earn
Business groups simply do not want to show any respect when it comes to raising their workers’ wages, and it's time to start protecting workers in Taiwan.
2020/03/27 |
Taiwan's Digital Response to Covid-19: Impressive, But Is Privacy Respected?
Taiwan has made advances in tech and deployed big data in the fight against COVID-19. But can privacy be protected?
2017/08/21 |
Taiwan’s ‘Grim Truth’: Vicious Low Wage, Low Productivity Cycle Crippling Workers and Companies
As Taiwanese businesses are unwilling to increase wages for the want to hold onto their profits, they are also complicit in causing themselves to lose demand, and therefore their business sustainability. The government needs to act.
2018/07/06 |
OPINION: Saluting Singapore's Marvelous Work Ethic!
Welcome to the People's Action Party's government school of logical fallacies
2018/07/25 |
ANALYSIS: Why Temasek Holdings' Singapore Pensions Claim Is Tosh
The Singapore government's sovereign wealth fund can be shown to be consistently dishonest over whether it has access to national pension funds.
2017/05/22 |
Tough Pill to Swallow: Why Singapore’s Healthcare Model Should Not Be Followed
[OPINION] Singapore’s healthcare system has become unnecessarily complicated but it can be reformed to provide more equitable healthcare and give its citizens peace of mind.
2017/05/02 |
Pension Reform in Asia is Extremely Difficult to Get Right
[OPINION] As pension reform protesters cause major headaches for the government in Taiwan, what lessons can be drawn from Hong Kong and Singapore?
2017/05/11 |
School’s Out: How Singapore Keeps University Reserved for the Elites
[OPINION] The Singapore government is shutting out most Singaporeans from universities while keeping the door wide open to foreigners.
2020/08/11 |
How Many Workers Can the Salaries of Singapore’s Ministers Pay For?
While Singapore's prime minister shamelessly lays claim to a salary 167 times the basic wage of an outsourced resident cleaner, the government refuses to enforce a minimum wage.
2018/07/30 |
ANALYSIS: Taiwan Is Better than Selfish Bosses and Their Heartless Wage Threats
Taiwan's manufacturing industry leaders have hoarded profits at the expense of wages for too long.