Professor Lim Chong Yah, an eminent economist who led a body forging wage consensus for Singaporean workers for nearly three decades – died on Saturday morning. He was 91. The son of a shopkeeper, Prof Lim was born in Malacca. His mother died when he was...
Professor Joseph Liow, dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and Tan Kah Kee Chair in Comparative and International Politics at NTU, said: “I had the pleasure of having lunch quite frequently with him over the past few years. It was akin to sitting at the feet of a very respected teacher. He had seen and experienced so much in his lifetime.
Professor Tommy Koh, Ambassador-at-Large at Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, called Prof Lim an “old friend” and an “economist with conscience”. Professor Lim Chong Yah signing books for guests at the launch of his book on the history of the National Wages Council in 2014.Prof Lim had also proposed that should the wages of the lowest-paid resident workers remain stubbornly very low, serious consideration should be given to introducing a compulsory minimum wage scheme.
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