"Oh if it is
just density then we should just compare with
Tokyo/Shanghai/Bombay/HK/etc."
Its also about GDP. You were the 1st to mention Japan... Do it
then... to present your points better.
"To take care
of the moral issue of taking care of parents - just have more old
folks' homes."
That's just saying :
"to take care of the issue of economy - just have more
banks."
"to take care of the issue of low birth rates - just have more
hospitals."
"to take care of the issue of health care - just have more
insurance company."
Just saying...
"Japan has
achieved much higher technical know how and economic dev than spore
and yet since eighties it has been unable to get out of the
mess. Japan will have to cut welfare benefits and raise tax
because it has debts of 200% of its GDP, so do not have to envy
Japan too much."
Japan held 719,900,000,000 FDI
stocks abroad. Debts of 208.2%
of its GDP.
Singapore held 172,100,000,000 FDI
stocks abroad. Debts of 118.2 %
of its GDP.
What's not to envy?
Japan has welfare benefits to cut, Singapore don't have such
benefit to cut from.
Raising tax has always been an option. What is your point?
"I do not
think that the cost of 1/3 aliens is people do not feel as one in
spore because those former sgporeans that migrated are living with
much more aliens to them and yet they identify with their new
countries as one."
Please rephrase for me to understand what are you trying to
say.
"China and
India are having great economic powers because of their historical
high birth rates, if not they should be the first to be developed
nations long ago. They have great economic power because they
have fast rising middle incomers beyond critical masses in a no of
their cities. The rising middle incomers are because of FDIs
in those cities."
Truth is, even when they were 3rd world countries, their birth
rates had ALWAYS been high regardless of their respective
government set laws to limit births.
Investment-->development-->population growth. More
investments pours in when the initial investments proved to have
good returns thus attracting more people to the deveopment.
"Certainly
greying and shrinking popn is an economic problem beside having
other problems like fiscal burdens. Do you think US, Canada
and Aust are compassionate in welcoming investor/skilled
aliens?"
It is more than just an economic problem. Problems that can be
solved by money is not exactly a problem. No having enough money is
an economic problem.
"We should ask
how EDB bring in those FDIs. "
Please ask in your own leisure. I'm just presenting you what was
available.
"But roughly,
large market/consumers is an attraction or close to market. I
have no time to list the other 7 factors but certainly popn in
cities is closely correlated to FDIs(not country popn)."
Correlation does not imply causation.
