This paper characterizes Singapore’s efforts to tackle the problem of per-sistent racial inequality in terms of the notion of fair meritocracy. Singapore’s race policy attempts to level the playing field through its unique race-based self-help organizations and a comprehensive, racially integrated, public housing program. Individuals are then sorted by the ostensibly objective mechanism of a standardized test based educational system. The social and economic implications of this policy are examined and, using summary data from the 1980 and 1990 censuses, the extent to which Singapore has been successful in creating a fair multiracial meritocracy is assessed. © 2000 The Association for Social Economics.
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Moore, R. Q. (2000). Multiracialism and meritocracy: Singapore’s approach to race and inequality. Review of Social Economy, 58(3), 339–360. https://doi.org/10.1080/00346760050132364
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