Singapore and Asia in a globalized world [electronic resource] : contemporary economic issues and policies / editors, Chia Wai Mun, Sng Hui Ying.
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TextPublication details: Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 222 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
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- 9789812815583
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- Singapore -- Economic policy -- Congresses
- Asia -- Economic policy -- Congresses
- Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Singapore -- Congresses
- Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Asia -- Congresses
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Business Development
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- General
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Government & Business
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Structural Adjustment
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy
- Economic policy
- Globalization -- Economic aspects
- Asia
- Singapore
- 338.95957 22
- HC445.8 .N78 2008eb
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Selected conference papers from the NTU-MOE Seminars 2008 at NTU on 8th March 2008.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Transformation in the Singapore economy: course and causes -- Innovation, markets and economic growth: a symbiosis -- Macro objectives of the Central Provident Fund (CPF): a review -- Monetary policy in Singapore: a BBC approach -- Capital accumulations, capital-output ratio and total factor productivity in Singapore -- The Asian financial crisis and the sub-prime mortgage crisis: a dissenting view -- Asian economic integration: the role of Singapore -- Asia's role in the global economy and the international financial system -- Globalization, income polarization and the rise of the "new challengers" -- Economics and health -- Medical decisions: a two stage decision model with information updating -- Economics of love: a simple theory and empirical study in Singapore -- The role of exchange rates in foreign direct investment: a United States perspective.
Print version record.
This book is a spin-off from a highly successful seminar series jointly organized by the Division of Economics of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the Ministry of Education (MOE) of Singapore. The seminars discuss contemporary domestic and regional economic issues and public policies that are relevant to the everyday lives of Singaporeans. The wish to introduce these economic issues to a broader audience outside the confinement of a lecture theatre, came to fruition, with the completion of this book. This book contains 13 chapters that are grouped under three sections. Under the s.