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This House would Mandate All Businesses to Accept Only Digital Payments
Swinburne Sarawak Inter-School Debating Championship 2025 (Senior) · Round 4 · 2025-08-18
This House believes that Malaysia Madani's Fiscal Policy Entrenches Inequality Instead of Reducing it
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Malaysia MADANI Fiscal Policy is the government's economic framework emphasising sustainability, inclusivity, y, and and good good governance. It aims to balance economic growth with social equity, focusing on responsible spending, targeted subsidies, and strategic investments to strengthen national resilience while reducing inequality and fostering long-term prosperity

Swinburne Sarawak Inter-School Debating Championship 2025 (Senior) · Round 4 · 2025-08-18
This House would Abolish the Minimum Wage Law
- Labor
- Economics
- Law
- Social Policy
Infoslide

By 2025, most countries have introduced minimum wage laws or frameworks. These can take the form of statutory minimum wages set by national governments or wage levels established through binding collective bargaining agreements between employers and trade unions.

Swinburne Sarawak Inter-School Debating Championship 2025 (Senior) · Round 4 · 2025-08-18
This House Believes That the Sarawakian Government should create tax-free zones in rural areas to stimulate business and domestic migration.
- Economics
- Development
- Trade
- Asia
Infoslide

A tax-free zone is a designated area where businesses enjoy exemptions or reductions on taxes and duties, encouraging trade, investment, and economic activity within that zone.

Swinburne Sarawak Inter-School Debating Championship 2025 (Senior) · Round 5 · 2025-08-18
This house Regrets the imposition of taxes on end users to fund environmentally driven advancements.
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Many governments introduce environmentally motivated policies, sometimes funding them by taxing end users. Such taxes aim to promote sustainability, yet also increase costs for consumers and businesses.

Swinburne Sarawak Inter-School Debating Championship 2025 (Senior) · Octofinals · 2025-08-18
This House opposes buying forests to offset carbon emissions.
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Private companies have increasingly acquired or funded forest areas, presenting this as part of wider climate and sustainability initiatives. These actions are often linked to carbon offset schemes, where credits are purchased to balance emissions by supporting projects that reduce or absorb carbon dioxide.

Swinburne Sarawak Inter-School Debating Championship 2025 (Senior) · Octofinals · 2025-08-18
This house believes that capitalism has no place in contemporary feminism
Orgullo Intervarsity 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-08-16
This house believes that it is in the interest of the Filipino Middle Class to withdraw from state-run insurance and social programs e.g. PhilHealth, Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), Pag-IBIG Fund, and Social Security System (SSS)
- Healthcare
- Economics
- Asia
- Labor
- Social Policy
Kasiyana Open 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-08-16
This house celebrates the decline of the kuripot lifestyle
- Culture
- Economics
- Asia
Infoslide

The kuripot lifestyle, rooted in Ilocano culture, emphasizes the importance of saving money through being cheap and thrifty. It often refers to being a reluctant spender, minimizing costs and making extremely careful financial decisions.

Kasiyana Open 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-08-16
This house, as the next generation of Maranao entrepreneurs, would transition from traditional clan-based high-trust networks to a Western-style formal business model
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Traditionally, Maranao families' strategy in their usual line of businesses (money exchange, gold and jewel trades, etc) rely on close-knit, clanship systems and high-trust networks to ensure line of credit and revenue. In contrast to Western business style that relies on legal and formal frameworks in order to stay competitive.

Kasiyana Open 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-08-16
This house believes that capitalism has no place in contemporary feminism.
Orgullo Intervarsity 2025 · Novice Semifinals · 2025-08-16
This House Would allow fans to veto player management decisions by sports clubs (eg. signings, selling, and trading)
Tuesday Academy Debate Open · Round 2 · 2025-08-16
In cases where the deliberate economic policies by another state have caused significant economic harm, This House believes that international law should recognise the legitimacy of military retaliation
BRAC Genders 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-08-15
This house believes that the U.S. should continue to pursue policies which encourage oil production domestically (e.g. funding oil refineries, expanding fracking licenses, relaxing taxes on relevant firms, releasing strategic oil reserves into the market etc...)
St Andrews pre-EUDC 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-08-13
This house supports the financialization of metropolitans in South-East Asian countries (e.g. Kuala Lumpur, HCMC, Bangkok)
- Economics
- Cities
- Asia
- Development
Infoslide

The financialization of a city typically involves financial institutions—e.g. banks, investment firms, and real estate funds— expanding into key urban districts. This manifests in buying real estate in these districts for office buildings, listing in the municipality, expanding hiring and in many cases increasing investment into assets in the city.

St Andrews pre-EUDC 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-08-13
The board, as a growing pharmaceutical company, will choose a focused strategy rather than a diversified one.
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Pharmaceutical companies are generally divided into two major types: diversified and focused. Diversified companies like AstraZeneca have a broad portfolio of products across various therapeutic areas such as vaccines, cancer, cardiovascular, and respiratory. On the other hand, focused companies like Novo Nordisk concentrate deeply on one or two therapeutic areas, for instance, diabetes and obesity. This classification influences each company's research strategy, product development, and business direction.

Gadjah Mada Intervarsity 2025 - Divisi Bahasa Indonesia · Round 2 · 2025-08-13
This house believes that the extensive media coverage on billionaires' personal lives have done more harm than good.
Guangdong Debate Challenge 2025 · School Finals · 2025-08-09
This House, assuming feasibility, would tax and redistribute happiness.
Guangdong Debate Challenge 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-08-09
This house believes that central banks should prioritise limiting inflation over stimulating demand in responding to Trump's tariffs
- Economics
- Trade
Guangdong Debate Challenge 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-08-09
This House believes that governments should provide disabled people with a direct stipend rather than state-owned disability services
Guangdong Debate Challenge 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-08-09