Since women account for almost 50 percent of the world’s population, the sustainability of development of the global economy can be greatly impaired if the state authorities in individual countries pay less attention to the improvement in the socio-economic status of women relative to men....

The outward FDI of Singapore have increased rapidly during the last few decades, a development that strongly contributes to deeper integration of the country's economy with that of other countries in the region. A good deal of investment is targeting other parts of the world as well, especially...

Singapore is one of the few indisputable success stories of post-war economic development. The country therefore is something of a role model for less developed countries as to what has to be done in order to promote development, in spite of the fact that many characteristics of Singapore (e.g.,...

For many developing countries, development aid is a major source of funding. Eligibility for aid, in turn, is largely related to poverty, usually measured as the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. This paper discusses the possibility that aid can be abused by manipulating the GDP figures....

Diversification of the economy, the aim being to decrease economic dependence on oil and gas, has been propagated for years as the paramount task of Brunei policy-makers. Although this is obviously a sensible objective, it has proved to be a difficult goal to achieve in practice. The main thesis...