Is it REALLY true that China and India are "becoming richer"?

Question

their economies are expanding...but why so many China and Indian nationals who come to Singapore to work? i read they earn very little in China and India and prefer to work in Singapore.

isn't that contradicting?

will Singapore be overcrowded?

Answer 1

yup....ask bush

Answer 2

While the statement 'the rich are getting richer' applies particularly well in India and China (each have more millionaires than the USA), and there is a small expanding middle class in each country, the majority of residents are poor and exploited by the rich.  Like the Phillipines, their workers are spreading out all around the world filling in jobs that the locals don't want to do.  While they probably take mostly low paying jobs and don't get treated great in Singapore , it is obviously preferable to the pay and working conditions back home.