UID:
almafu_9960119736502883
Format:
1 online resource (xxi, 472 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st pbk. ed.
ISBN:
0-511-47071-1
Content:
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the economic development of Singapore, easily the leading commercial and financial centre in Southeast Asia throughout the twentieth century. This development has been based on a strategic location at the crossroads of Asia, a free trade economy, and a dynamic entrepreneurial tradition. Initial twentieth-century economic success was linked to a group of legendary Chinese entrepreneurs, but by mid-century independent Singapore looked to multinational enterprise to deliver economic growth. Nonetheless exports of manufactures accounted for only part of Singaporean expansion, and by the 1980s Singapore was a major international financial centre and leading world exporter of commercial services. Throughout this study Dr Huff assesses the interaction of government policy and market forces, and places the transformation of the Singaporean economy in the context of both development theory and experience elsewhere in East Asia.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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pt. 1. Themes and beginnings. 1. Patterns in the economic development of Singapore, 1870-1990. 2. Singapore in the late nineteenth century -- pt. 2. Development as a staple port, 1900-1939. 3. Trade, finance and development. 4. Ocean-going shipping, the port and regional transport. 5. Immigration, population and employment. 6. Rubber: boom and spread of a twentieth-century staple. 7. Rubber, industrialization and the development of Chinese banking. 8. Petroleum and tin: the twentieth-century boom commodity and a staple in decline. 9. The distribution of manufactured imports -- pt. 3. Staple port and rapid growth, 1947-1990. 10. The staple port resurgent: development to 1959. 11. Markets, government and growth, 1960-1990 -- 12. Conclusion.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-62944-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-37037-X
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511470714
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