knowledge for innovation output in Singapore, a small, highly open economy that has traditionally been significantly dependent … Singaporean firms depends disproportionately on technological knowledge produced by MNCs with operational presence in Singapore … universities constitute an insignificant, albeit rapidly growing, source for innovation in Singapore. …

decomposition of aggregate productivity growth in Singapore over the period 1965-2002. The static shift-share analysis is utilized …

This study re-examines the validity of relationship between Singapore Dollar-US Dollar exchange rate and the relative … Smooth Transition Autoregressive (ESTAR)- type non-linear mean-reverting adjustment process of the nominal Singapore dollar … Singapore Dollar-US Dollar exchange rate and consumer price index ratio, this study shows that the relationship is in fact non …

This study re-examines the validity of relationship between Singapore Dollar-US Dollar exchange rate and the relative … Smooth Transition Autoregressive (ESTAR)- type non-linear mean-reverting adjustment process of the nominal Singapore dollar … Singapore Dollar-US Dollar exchange rate and consumer price index ratio, this study shows that the relationship is in fact non …

Unlike aversion to inequality, aversion to poverty resists formalization in welfare economics. One way to assign … normative significance to the poverty line is to allow the welfare measure to exhibit a discrete loss from poverty (DLP) at z …

(if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … poverty solely and not with inequality is internally inconsistent. …

, their distribution and poverty depend very crucially on the hypothesis made on the evolution of returns to education and …

It has been noted that failure to meet the target set by government for reducing the head count ratio of child poverty … argument that absolute poverty is not a meaningful idea, this apology for the failure of government to meet poverty targets …