Cash prizes for essays on wider income gap
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Bloody Joker ! This is good for a laugh.
Cash prizes for essays on wider income gap
By Chua Hian Hou
STUDENTS are being invited to write essays on one of Singapore's hottest topics today - with the added lure of sizeable cash prizes.
The essay competition, organised by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Economic Society of Singapore (ESS), has this theme: Singapore's Growing Income Disparities: Causes, Consequences And Policy Options.
The topic, according to an MAS-ESS press statement, is one that has 'captured the attention of not just policymakers but also analysts, commentators, academics and the general public'.
For students, the competition offers a timely opportunity to 'debate and analyse', as well as to suggest ways for Singapore to meet this challenge, the release said.
Essays submitted, it added, should 'provide in-depth analysis of the factors underlying the trends in income distribution in Singapore... There should be both breadth and depth in discussing policy options to meet present and future challenges'.
Competition topics in previous years have included lessons learnt from the Asian financial crisis, how Singapore can stay competitive, and the role of the government in an increasingly borderless world.
There are two categories: one for university students and one for pre-university students. The top prize for the university category is $5,000 and for the pre-university category, $2,000. Winners and runners-up will be offered internships with the MAS.
Entry forms are available on the MAS website (http://www.mas.gov.sg/ess/index.html ) and on ESS' website (http://www.ess.org.sg . -
MAS too lazy to do any research of their own
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Who want to write, I help submit. If win the writer takes 80% of the money I take 20%
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The multi-million dollar ministers are driving the people CRAZY !Originally posted by Demonight:MAS too lazy to do any research of their own
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can singaporean boycott this stupid idiotic game?
i think we are the clowns played by these idiotic elites -
Very easy to win. Just don't tell the truth and make MAS look good
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this is a chance for your views to be read! No matter whether you win a not!Originally posted by Demonight:Very easy to win. Just don't tell the truth and make MAS look good
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why they so annoying... make our blood boil... hope some gays can suck their didi dry... until they crawl and shout mamaOriginally posted by googoomuck:The multi-million dollar ministers are driving the people CRAZY ! -
do you think they care?Originally posted by eagle:this is a chance for your views to be read! No matter whether you win a not! -
they have to read to mark the essay mahOriginally posted by Seven_Dragon:do you think they care?
whether they care a not is another thing -
Good thing a relative of mine turned down headhunting efforts by MAS.
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Why? Sit there offer money for uni students to do research... only 8k leh.... You will get lots of research, and you get paid to read through the research papers which you get just for 8k. You don't need to be very well versed in economics because according to the terms and conditions,Originally posted by LazerLordz:Good thing a relative of mine turned down headhunting efforts by MAS. The essays should be well researched and informed, and should
provide new analyses and perspectives as far as possible. They should
also be written such that they are accessible to a wide audience. They
are therefore not meant to be academic 'journal-style' papers. -
I might try for cash....hey why the hell not. Just whack 4k words in.
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Business is business lah.5k for the taking - might as well. I think that you would write rather well but only one thing - you must make the negatives look good. That is the hardest part but there is a trick to that.Originally posted by LazerLordz:Good thing a relative of mine turned down headhunting efforts by MAS. -
looks like 'they've ' run out of ideas and are in need of help in the form fo so called 'essay competition' ... first world ideas... indeed..
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Mr. Ngiam Tong Dow said. 'Every time there is a problem, we call in a consultant. I get fed up with that.'
He was referring to the civil service's higher echelon. I would include the cabinet ministers too.
Now on the cheap, they hire students.
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Well, earlier I was just thinking aloud, nothing related to the essay actually.Originally posted by fymk:Business is business lah.5k for the taking - might as well. I think that you would write rather well but only one thing - you must make the negatives look good. That is the hardest part but there is a trick to that.
But I'm sure a lot of people would go for this essay.
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Tapping on the wisdom of crowds.Originally posted by Demonight:MAS too lazy to do any research of their own -
That's darkly ironic.Originally posted by LifeIsWonderful:Tapping on the wisdom of crowds. -
If I put just 3 letters in the essay , will I automatically win the prize?
Kind of like that urban legend where a student hands up an empty essay when asked to define "bravery". -
Funny how they are asking people who have not really started working to explain about income.
Makes it seem like this exercise is just, as always, for show only. -
Read, spat on and put through the shredder so it'll never see the light of day.Originally posted by eagle:this is a chance for your views to be read! No matter whether you win a not! -
What makes you so sure they will even read it?Originally posted by Demonight:Read, spat on and put through the shredder so it'll never see the light of day. -
I mean that you should try it out . A winning paper will get around without pulling the multi million dollar salary and foreign talent policies into that blame game.Originally posted by LazerLordz:Well, earlier I was just thinking aloud, nothing related to the essay actually.
But I'm sure a lot of people would go for this essay. 
As for the policy side , don't pull in the welfare part in.
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You are absolutely right.Originally posted by fymk:I mean that you should write your views. A winning paper will get around without pulling the multi million dollar salary and foreign talent policies into that blame game.
Basically to win, you have to write like an elite on an ivory tower.
You need to start your essay with:
"Kudos to the ruling government for making Singapore what it is today. Without brilliant planning and astute policies, this little island state would never have become the glowing economic success that many countries can only envy and admire..."
Somewhere in the middle of your essay, address the issue of a widening income gap. But make sure the reason you give is globalisation and that there is nothing much the government can do since it is happening everywhere across the world. Don't ever mention the touchy subject of having the highest paid ministers in the world whom despite always pledging to narrow the income gap, see it widening every year instead.
End your essay with another word of praise. Or two.
Remember, use only good adjectives. Kind of like those which MPs use during the previous Budget debates.
Good luck.