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This paper explores the relationship between unemployment (U) and job vacancies (V) in the Singapore labour market … of Beveridge Curve for the Singapore economy reveals that it has become more inelastic since the Asian crisis, thereby …
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policy-makers to reduce the equilibrium rate of unemployment? I believe that reaching out for a weaker Singapore dollar in …
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in Singapore. The quality change of workers from aging and education is measured through a quality index. Quality change …
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when he and his Singaporean counterpart, Goh Chok Tong, signed the Japan-Singapore Economic Partnership Agreement (JSEPA … global trade liberalisation. This paper aims to examine how and why Japan and Singapore decided to pursue FTAs, what … seeking FTAs with other ASEAN countries which were less developed than Singapore and had a higher proportion of agricultural …
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The paper measures the impact of information technology on the output growth of Singapore economy. A vibrant … information sector will play an important catalytic role in developing Singapore into a knowledge-based economy. The analysis …
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of its political economy. Singapore has been remarkably successful in achieving fast growth, low and stable price … the reason why managed floating has been successful in Singapore has been because the credibility of monetary policy has … mobile firms from leaving Singapore. By the early 1990s the imperative became to diversify the structure of the economy away …
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quarters of 2008) and averaging a growth rate of nearly 10 percent from 2004 to 2007, Singapore was the first East Asian … country to fall into a recession from the current global economic crisis in July 2008. It was projected that the Singapore … economy will grow by -1.0 to 2 percent in 2009. This paper examines the current state of the Singapore economy and highlights …
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The paper studies the post-Asian crisis investment performance of crisis affected countries in ASEAN. The empirical evidence clearly indicates that the ASEAN and East Asian countries are emerging from the Asian crisis with strong output growth. As expected, the output growth seems to be driven...
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housing supply is relatively price inelastic and the income elasticity of housing demand is less than one. The Singapore … income ratio targets are tested using the Singapore housing market. The experience and data for Singapore were found to …
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banking performance in four Asian economies : the People's Republic of China (PRC); Hong Kong, China; Singapore; and Taipei …,China. Both the PRC and Hong Kong, China operate under a fragmented financial regulatory structure, while Singapore and Taipei …
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