Economist, Centennial Asia Advisors

Jason Tan

Economist

Centennial Asia Advisors

At Centennial Asia Advisors, we tell it like it is. We have no vested interests, no need for a China wall, and no reason to skew our outlook any other way. With over 30 years experience covering Asia’s political economy, you can be sure our conclusions and analyses are based on the unadulterated facts. Through years of fine-tuning our research methodologies, we deliver a quality of macroeconomic analysis few other houses can match.

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<strong>Slow employment growth:</strong> It is not a pretty picture in the labour market. The resident unemployment rate averaged 3% in 2016, up from 2.8% in 2015 and the highest since 2010. Redundancies rose sharply while total employment barely grew – up 8,600 in 2016, down from 23,300 in 2015 and well below the yearly average of 120,000 in 2010-14.</li>
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<strong>Unambiguous signs of an economic turnaround:</strong> Non-oil domestic exports (mainly manufactured goods) soared 21.5% y/y in Feb 17, up from 8.6% in Jan 17 while non-oil…</li>
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Slow employment growth: It is not a pretty picture in the labour market. The resident unemployment rate averaged 3% in 2016, up from 2.8% in 2015 and the highest since 2010. Redundancies rose sharply while total employment barely grew – up 8,600 in 2016, down from 23,300 in 2015 and well below the yearly average of 120,000 in 2010-14.

Unambiguous signs of an economic turnaround: Non-oil domestic exports (mainly manufactured goods) soared 21.5% y/y in Feb 17, up from 8.6% in Jan 17 while non-oil…


Singapore: How Worried Should We Be About a Weak Labour Market?