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Dr Yap Mui Teng is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies.
She leads research in the area of Demography and Family at the Institute.
Her current research interests include policy responses to low fertility in Singapore and elsewhere, policies on the aged, migration policies, and poverty alleviation policies.
Dr Yap has written and published on fertility and family planning, migration and ageing in Singapore.
She worked as a statistician at the Population Planning Unit, Ministry of Health, before joining IPS in 1989. She has also worked as a Research Fellow at the Population Institute, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, and a statistician at the Research and Evaluation Unit, Singapore Family Planning and Population Board.
Dr Yap has a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours) degree from the University of Singapore, and Master and PhD degrees from the University of Hawaii.
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Planning for an Ageing Population Yap Mui Teng, in Teaching Social Studies: A Reader, edited by Wong Tai Chee, Wang Zhenping, Rahil Ismail and Kho Ee Moi. Singapore: Pearson Education (forthcoming 2005)
Poverty Monitoring and Alleviation in Singapore Yap Mui Teng, in Poverty Monitoring and Alleviation in Asia, edited by KL Tang and CK Wong. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2003.
Population Policies and Programs in Singapore Yap Mui Teng, in Population Policies and Programs in East Asia, East-West Center Occasional Papers No. 123, edited by Andrew Mason, Honolulu: East-West Center, 2001.
On Babies, Foreign Talent and Older People: The Great Balancing Act. Yap Mui Teng, in Southeast Asian Affairs 2001. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2001
Low Fertility and Policy Response in Singapore Yap Mui Teng, in Low Fertility and Policy Responses to Issues of Ageing and Welfare. Seoul: Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs & United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), 2000
Identitaetskonstruktionen in Singapur Yap Mui Teng, in Im Zentrum Suedostasiens: Singapur, edited by Manfred Kieserling. Suhrkamp-Verlag, Frankfurt, 2000.
Adapting Existing Institutions to Meet the Needs of the Elderly Yap Mui Teng, in Population Ageing; Challenges for Policies and Programmes in Developed and Developing Countries, edited by Robert Cliquet & Mohammed Nizamuddin. New York: UNFPA and Brussels: CBGS, 1999
Singapore’s New
Population Policy: The First Five Years Yap Mui Teng, Asia-Pacific Population Journal, vol 10 no 4, 1995.
Brain Drain or Links to the World: Views on Emigrants from Singapore. Yap Mui Teng, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, volume 3 nos 2-3, 1994.
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