Of Government, Innovation and the Social Sector: An Interview with Ngiam Tong Dow

With homelessness and unemployment looming large in the 1960s, the pioneer public service team turned the situation around within a span of 10 years. Veteran civil servant Ngiam Tong Dow shares his insights from the days of coming nose-to-nose with social breakdown – a time when creative resourceful...

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spelling sg-smu-ink.lien_research-10362018-07-10T08:30:12Z Of Government, Innovation and the Social Sector: An Interview with Ngiam Tong Dow Ngiam, Tong Dow With homelessness and unemployment looming large in the 1960s, the pioneer public service team turned the situation around within a span of 10 years. Veteran civil servant Ngiam Tong Dow shares his insights from the days of coming nose-to-nose with social breakdown – a time when creative resourcefulness was the only option. Retired and with the benefit of hindsight, he shares with Social Space his thoughts on innovation, government and the way forward for the social sector. 2009-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lien_research/26 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lien_research/article/1036/viewcontent/Ngiam_Tong_Dow___Of_Government__Innovation___The_Social_Sector.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Social Space eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Models and Methods Policy History, Theory, and Methods Public Administration Public Policy Social Policy
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Social Policy
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Public Administration
Public Policy
Social Policy
Ngiam, Tong Dow
Of Government, Innovation and the Social Sector: An Interview with Ngiam Tong Dow
description With homelessness and unemployment looming large in the 1960s, the pioneer public service team turned the situation around within a span of 10 years. Veteran civil servant Ngiam Tong Dow shares his insights from the days of coming nose-to-nose with social breakdown – a time when creative resourcefulness was the only option. Retired and with the benefit of hindsight, he shares with Social Space his thoughts on innovation, government and the way forward for the social sector.
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