Yap Mui Teng
Senior Research Fellow

Research Interests: Policy responses to low fertility in Singapore and elsewhere, policies on the aged, migration policies, and poverty alleviation policies.

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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.

Books/Reports:

Report on the State of the Elderly 2009
Yap Mui Teng. Report commissioned by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS).

Singapore Perspectives 2003
Yap Mui Teng, ed. Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 2003

Employment Insurance: A Safety Net for the Unemployed 
Yap Mui Teng, in Remaking Singapore : Recommendations from the Institute of Policy Studies

Perspectives 2001
Yap Mui Teng, ed. Singapore: Times Academic Press for IPS, 2001

Singapore: The Year in Review 1994
Yap Mui Teng, ed. Singapore: Times Academic Press for IPS, 1994

Singaporeans Overseas: A Study of Emigrants in Australia and Canada
Yap Mui Teng. IPS Report Series, No. 3, 1991 

Social Services: The Next Lap
Yap Mui Teng, ed. Singapore: Times Academic Press for IPS, 1991


Book Chapters/Journal Articles:

Social Assistance Programme in Singapore
Yap Mui Teng, in Social Policy and Poverty in East Asia: The Role of Social Security, edited by James Midgley and Tang Kwong Leung, Routledge (forthcoming)

Bolstering Population Growth: From Babies to Immigrants
Yap Mui Teng, in Impressions: The Goh Years in Singapore, edited by Bridget Welsh, James Chin, Arun Mahizhnan and Tan Tarn How, Singapore: NUS Press (forthcoming)

The Ageing Population
Yap Mui Teng, in Management of Success: Singapore Reassessed, edited by K Kesavapany and Terence Chong, Singapore: ISEAS (forthcoming)

Demographic Trends and Social Security
Yap Mui Teng and G Shantakumar, in Singapore Futures: Scenarios for the Next Generation, edited by Gillian Koh, Singapore: World Scientific (forthcoming)

Ultra-Low Fertility in Singapore: Some Observations
Yap Mui Teng, in Ultra-Low Fertility in Pacific Asia: Trends, Causes and Policy Dilemmas, edited by Gavin Jones, Paulin Tay-Straughan and Angelique Chan, London: Routledge (2009)

Singapore
Yap Mui Teng. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, volume 17, numbers 3-4, pp 379-389. Special Issue on International Migration Data and Sources in Asia, edited by Jerrold W Huguet.

The Elderly Woman in Singapore: Her Role and Position
Yap Mui Teng, in The Elderly Woman in Asia: Her Role and Position, edited by Joseph Troisi and Ann Pawliczko, The International Institute on Ageing, United Nations-Malta (2008).

Singapore’s Response to an Ageing Population
Yap Mui Teng, in Ageing in Southeast and East Asia; Family, Social Protection and Policy Challenges, edited by Lee Hock Guan, Singapore: ISEAS (2008)

Singapore: Population Policies and Programs
Yap Mui Teng, in The Global Family Planning Revolution; Three Decades of Population Policies and Programs, edited by Warren C Robinson and John A Ross, Washington, DC: World Bank (2007)

Planning for an Ageing Population
Yap Mui Teng, in Teaching Social Studies: A Reader, edited by Wong Tai Chee et al., Singapore: Pearson/Prentice Hall (2005)

Fertility and Population Policy: The Singapore Experience
Yap Mui Teng, Journal of Population and Social Security: Population Study, Supplement to Volume 1, June 2003 (available here )

Poverty Monitoring and Alleviation in Singapore
Yap Mui Teng, in Poverty Monitoring and Alleviation in Asia, edited by K.L. Tang & C.K. Wong. New York: Nova Publications (2003)

Population Ageing in the ASEAN Countries
Yap Mui Teng, in Bold (quarterly journal of the International Institute on Ageing), United Nations - Malta, Vol. 12 No. 2, 2002

Bridging the Intergenerational Divide
Yap Mui Teng, in Perspectives 2001, edited by Yap Mui Teng. Singapore: Times Academic Press for IPS, 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

Labour Migration and the Role of the Media
Yap Mui Teng in Asian Migrant Vol.13 No. 3, Jul - Sep, 2000

Who is a Singaporean?
Yap Mui Teng, in SAIS Review Vol. 20 No. 1, 2000

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

The Singapore State’s Response to Migration
Yap Mui Teng, in Sojourn, Vol. 14 No. 1, Apr 1999

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 & Brussels: DBGS, 1999

The Age of the Aged
Yap Mui Teng & Phillip E.S. Tan, in Singapore: Re-engineering Success, edited by Arun Mahizhnan & Lee Tsao Yuan. Singapore: IPS & Oxford University Press, 1998

Singapore’s New Population Policy: The First Five Years
Yap Mui Teng, in Asia-Pacific Population Journal, Vol. 10 No. 4, 1995

Brain Drain or Links to the World: Views on Emigrants from Singapore.
Yap Mui Teng, in Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Vol. 3 No. 2 - 3, 1994


Speeches and Articles: 

Reactions to Parenthood Package; Baby boost: Joining the dots
Article by Yap Mui Teng, The Straits Times, 28 January 2013

Redefining Ageing
Article by Yap Mui Teng and Chua Chun Ser, IPS Update, August 2012

Singapore’s population conundrum
Article by Yap Mui Teng and Christopher Gee, Asia Pathways, 31 July 2012

Tackling the population conundrum
Article by Yap Mui Teng and Christopher Gee, The Straits Times, 5 May 2012

Singapore's Demographic Trends 
Article by Yap Mui Teng, Global-is -Asian, April-June 2011, pp.11

Demography and Family Cluster Works on Population Growth Scenarios (Part II) 
Article by Yap Mui Teng, Kang Soon Hock and Chua Chun Ser, IPS Update, April 2011

Demography and Family Cluster Works on Population Growth Scenarios 
Article by Yap Mui Teng, Kang Soon Hock and Chua Chun Ser, IPS Update, March 2011

Life stages and S'pore's baby woes
Article by Yap Mui Teng, The Straits Times, 19 February 2011

Learning from the Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Article by Yap Mui Teng, IPS Update, December 2010


Others:

Fertility and Population Policy: the Singapore Experience
Presentation by Yap Mui Teng at the Mini-Workshop on Low Fertility and Policy Responses in Asia: Cases of Korea and Singapore. National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Tokyo, Japan, 19 Nov 2002

Management of Labour Migration in Singapore
Presentation by Yap Mui Teng at the Foreign Scholar Lecture Series, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Tokyo, Japan, 13 Nov 2002

Changing Trends and Needs of Elderly – Economic Perspective
Presentation by Yap Mui Teng at the Pre-Course Seminar on "Changing Profile of the Elderly", organised by the International Institute on Ageing, UN - Malta & the Singapore Action Group of Elders (SAGE), Singapore, 26 Aug 2002

Population Policies and Fertility: The Singapore Experience 
Presentation by Yap Mui Teng at the International Workshop on Fertility Decline, Below Replacement Fertility and the Family in Asia: Prospects, Consequences and Policies, Singapore, organised by the Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis & the Family Studies Research Programme, National University of Singapore, 10 - 12 Apr 2002

The Management of Labour Migration in Singapore
Presentation by Yap Mui Teng at the ASEM Asia-Europe Dialogue on Globalisation and International Migration, "The Globalisation of International Migration: Asian and European Experiences", Paris, 11 - 12 Mar 2002

Ageing: ASEAN Perspective
Presentation by Yap Mui Teng at the ASEAN Gerontology Course, (Second and Third Courses), Singapore, organised by the International Institute on Ageing, UN - Malta & the Singapore Action Group of Elders (SAGE), 10 Sep 2001 & 26 Aug 2002

Income Maintenance and Security in Old Age
Presentation by Yap Mui Teng at the ESCAP Regional Workshop on Strengthening National Policies on Ageing and Follow-Up to the Macau Plan of Action on Ageing, Manila, Philippines, 16 - 18 Jul 2001

• Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies
• Associate, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

• Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies
• Statistician, Population Planning Unit, Ministry of Health
• Research Fellow, East-West Population Institute, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
• Statistician, Research and Evaluation Unit, Singapore Family Planning and Population Board