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Social Infrastructures and Older Adults’ Webs of Care: COVID-19 as Spatial Breach
During the COVID-19 pandemic, spatial restrictions and social distancing significantly impacted older adults in Singapore, particularly those that were previously socially isolated. In ‘Social Infrastructures and Older Adults’ Webs of Care: COVID-19 as Spatial Breach’ (Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2023), Professor Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho, Gao Siyao, and Samantha Lim (all NUS Geography) […]
Macroeconomy Without FIRE
In ‘Macroeconomy Without FIRE’, which was awarded a Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2 grant from 2025–2029, Assistant Professor Donghai Zhang (NUS Economics) asks a deceptively simple question: do businesses really understand the economy as well as economists assume they do? For decades, most economic models have been built on the idea of “full-information rational expectations”—the assumption that all firms, whether a multinational […]
Expanding the family circle: Local in-law relationships and their role in supporting foreign spouses
The Transnational Family Care Programme was launched in July 2024 to address the growing needs and challenges faced by transnational families in Singapore. With about one-third of citizen marriages involving a Singaporean marrying a non-citizen, the number of transnational families is growing in Singapore, constituting an integral part of its social fabric. While community programmes […]