Jamus Jerome Lim Chee Wui (Chinese: 林志蔚; pinyin: Lín Zhìweì; born 1976)[1][3] is a Singaporean politician, economist and associate professor. A member of the Workers' Party (WP), Lim has been the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Anchorvale division of Sengkang GRC. Since 2020, he has been Deputy Head of Policy Research of the party's Central Executive Committee (CEC).[4][5]
Lim started his career at JP Morgan, before working at the World Bank for seven years, from 2007 to 2014, serving in its Development Prospects Group and specialising in long-term macroeconomic projections.[10] He was an economist at the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.[9] In 2018, he joined the Singapore-based independent investment management firm Thirdrock.[11] Lim is an associate professor of economics at ESSEC Business School in Singapore.[12][13] On 23 July 2020, Lim was elected to the council of the Economic Society of Singapore (ESS).[14]
Political careeredit
Lim became a member of the Workers' Party (WP) in September 2019, having previously volunteered in the party's grassroots activities.[10]
On 3 September 2020, Lim gave his maiden speech in Parliament. He asserted that there was "insufficient compassion in our policymaking process" and proposed that Singapore could implement a "simple, across-the-board minimum wage".[26]
On 27 December 2020, Lim was elected as Deputy Head of the Policy Research Team of the WP's Central Executive Committee (CEC).[27]
On 11 July 2023, Speaker of Parliament Tan Chuan-Jin made a public apology to Lim after a clip of him using "unparliamentary language" during a 17 April parliamentary sitting was shared on Reddit; Tan had muttered "fucking populist" shortly after Lim's 20-minute speech on the establishment of an official poverty line. Lim accepted Tan's apology.[28]
Personal lifeedit
In his younger days, Lim was a rugby player, drummer, and self-declared "Solitaire junkie".[12] Lim is married to Chilean-American writer Eneida Patricia Alcalde. They have a daughter who was born in 2019.[29]
Beardsley, Kyle; Lim, Jamus Jerome (2009). "Atoms for Peace, Redux: Energy Codependency for Sustained Cooperation on the Korean Peninsula". Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy. 15 (1): 4. doi:10.2202/1554-8597.1129. S2CID 154607533.
Lim, Jamus Jerome; Saborowski, Christian (2012). "Export diversification in a transitioning economy". Economics of Transition. 20 (2): 339–367. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0351.2011.00430.x. S2CID 153512596.
Haddad, Mona; Lim, Jamus Jerome; Pancaro, Cosimo; Saborowski, Christian (2013). "Trade openness reduces growth volatility when countries are well diversified". Journal of Monetary Economics. 46 (2): 765–790. doi:10.1111/caje.12031. hdl:10419/153924. S2CID 78052.
Adams-Kane, Jonathon; Lim, Jamus Jerome (2016). "Institutional Quality Mediates the Effect of Human Capital on Economic Performance" (PDF). Review of Development Economics. 20 (2): 426–442. doi:10.1111/rode.12236. hdl:10986/18361. S2CID 54616164.
Mohapatra, S; Lim, Jamus Jerome (2016). "The Effect of Quantitative Easing on Financial Flows to Developing Countries". Journal of International Money and Finance. 68 (1): 331–357. doi:10.1016/j.jimonfin.2016.02.009.
Adams‐Kane, Jonathon; Caballero, Julian A; Lim, Jamus Jerome (2017). "Foreign bank behavior during financial crises" (PDF). Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. 49 (2–3): 351–392. doi:10.1111/jmcb.12382. hdl:10419/115470.
Huidrom, Raju; Kose, Ayhan; Lim, Jamus Jerome; Ohnsorge, Franziska Lieselotte (2019). "Why do fiscal multipliers depend on fiscal positions?" (PDF). Canadian Journal of Economics. 114: 109–125. doi:10.1016/j.jmoneco.2019.03.004. S2CID 197770956.
Lim, Jamus Jerome (2019). "Growth in the Shadow of Debt". Journal of Banking and Finance. 103 (1): 98–112. doi:10.1016/j.jbankfin.2019.04.002.
Huidrom, Raju; Kose, M Ayhan; Lim, Jamus Jerome; Ohnsorge, Franziska L (2020). "Why do fiscal multipliers depend on fiscal positions?". Journal of Monetary Economics. 114: 109–125. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3360720. hdl:10986/31432.
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External linksedit
Workers' Party biography Archived 3 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine