Tharman Shanmugaratnam

“These early-stage investments have the largest multipliers over a lifetime -- all the studies show that,”

“we are witnessing an erosion of the norms, conventions and trust built over 80 years, reinforcing the decline into disorder.”

“To reduce the hierarchy between academic and vocational pathways, countries must provide real opportunities for people to excel and attain mastery in technical fields, said President Tharman Shanmugaratnam.”

“rivalry between the two superpowers could yield broad benefits if innovations were widely shared and not allowed to undermine global stability.”

“If we can address that and rebuild trust in national economic strategies, with everyone knowing that they're going to have something in it for themselves and they can contribute to national prosperity themselves, I think we then have a better chance at building resilient international alliances for the global good.”

“During the conversation, he also mentioned that Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam offered to help Banga in his mission on one condition -- the drive to put effort, energy, money and capital to work.”