Avoid overlap of charity, community efforts

I refer to the article “More can be done to avoid overlap of charity, community efforts: Tan Chuan-Jin” (Channel News Asia, Jan 24).

It states that “More can be done to avoid overlapping efforts between charities and community help groups”.

CDCs competing with charities?

Why are CDCs competing with other charities for “limited” charity donations?

How much funds do CDCs raise in total in a year?

When did the CDCs start raising funds, on top of the funding provided by the Government?

Do MPs arguably – may have an “unfair” advantage when they raise funds vis-a-vis other charities?

The statistics & outcomes of our social system?

In this connection:

Is Singapore the country (amongst developed and developing countries) with one of the lowest welfare spending as a percentage of GDP ?

Is Singapore the country (amongst developed and developing countries) with one of the lowest government spending as a percentage of GDP? According to the Economist (Sep 27, 2014) – “(in) Denmark, government spending runs to nearly 60% of GDP. More diverse America allocates just 39% of GDP to government, in polyglot Singapore the figure is just 14%”.

Is Singapore the country with one of the lowest public healthcare spending as a percentage of GDP in the world?

Is Singapore the only country in the world that does not spend a single cent (from a cashflow perspective) on public housing, and makes profits?

Is Singapore the only country in the world that keeps an estimated 3 per cent of the annual returns on its national pension fund, at the expense of CPF members – resulting in the lowest real rate of return amongst all national pension schemes in the world since 1999?

Is Singapore the country with the highest Budget surplus (per capita) in the world (cash Budget surplus $25 billion in FY2012 as well as FY2013 under IMF fiscal reporting guidelines)?

Leong Sze Hian