The Business Times

Terence Ho

THE WRITER, AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (PRACTICE), IS THE DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AT INSTITUTE FOR ADULT LEARNING SINGAPORE

SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) provides course fee subsidies, absentee payroll support, and an Enterprise Credit to defray training costs.

Investing in skills: How can businesses make training pay off?

Without opportunities to transfer skills to the workplace, the value of training quickly dissipates

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THE BROAD VIEW

Public net worth – the measure of financial strength and success

New book on government accounting advances ideas worth considering

Singapore needs to consider the size of public spending and how to fund it, including how much to extract from the state’s reserves.
THE BROAD VIEW

Debt and spending: How we can be fair to both current and future generations

EARLIER this month, Fitch downgraded the United States sovereign credit rating by one notch from the highest AAA to AA+.

A common understanding of the key drivers of fiscal spending is needed for a realistic picture of the challenges ahead and how the country can marshal the resources to address them.
PERSPECTIVE

Keeping Singapore’s public finances on an even keel

PLANNING for a country’s future requires a sound assessment of the fiscal resources available to meet public expenditure needs in the years...

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