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Govt agencies must collaborate to achieve best policies: Tharman

Policies must cut across disciplines and agencies to help S'pore through changes unfolding globally and at home

Published Tue, Oct 27, 2015 · 09:50 PM
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GOVERNMENT agencies must collaborate with one another as they navigate through hardening social class distinctions and the health-care demands of older Singaporeans, said Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam on Tuesday.

They must also work through an extended period of slow economic growth globally, and the new realities linked to changes in production trends, particularly in China.

Speaking at the Public Service Leadership dinner, Mr Tharman, who is also coordinating minister for economic and social policies, said that in…

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