Irene Y. H. Ng

Irene Yue Hoong Ng is Associate Professor of Social Work and Director of the Social Service Research Centre at the National University of Singapore. Quotes Singapore has become a stratified society. Years of unevenly distributed growth in a neoliberal growth regime has led to emergence of a class of working and non-working poor who face insurmountable challenges in uplifting themselves from a cycle of poverty. Being Poor in a Rich “Nanny State”: Developments in Singapore Social Welfare The Singapore Economic Review August 2015 60 03 1550038 10.1142/S0217590815500381 https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0217590815500381 Republished in Lim Linda Y. C. Singapore's Economic Development: Retrospection And Reflections World Scientific 978-981-4723-48-0 279 https://books.google.com/books?id=dWPFCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA279 We accept some inequality in order that we can have the kind of economic prosperity that has brought us this far. As quoted in How famously uptight Singapore became a playground for Asia's 'crazy rich' (September 3, 2018) by Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times External links Irene Y. H. Ng's profile at the National University of Singapore Irene Y. H. Ng at ResearchGate 0000-0001-7289-8727 Category:Living people Category:Academics from Singapore Category:Non-fiction authors from Singapore Category:Articles with no corresponding English Wikipedia article