Notes
The government’s Population White Paper 2013 can be downloaded here. The essay refers to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s post-mortem of the debate. His comments were made at a press conference that can be viewed here (under 4 minutes):
Going deeper
- The best critique of the Singapore government’s groupthink can be found in Donald Low’s essays in Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus (co-author: Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh; NUS Press, 2014).
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