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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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; Singapore; and Taipei,China, as well as the gradual shifting of the sources of economic growth away from the manufacturing …
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Singapore, calls into question the scope for recalibrating growth drivers towards domestic demand. Nonetheless, the …
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This paper studies the catching-up process in per capita income of the so-called Asian Dragons and Tigers. It contributes to the literature in several ways. First, it tests the catching-up hypothesis using the longest time span ever considered, from 1870 to 2014. Second, it documents the...
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Singapore is the most industrialized and urbanized country in Southeast Asia and is totally dependent on oil and … maintaining Singapore's competitiveness, improving energy security, and enhancing environmental sustainability. In this paper, we … discuss where Singapore stands with regard to its energy consumption and CO2 emissions, its energy policies to date, and those …
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Is the harmonization of financial regulatory regimes possible in East Asia? Focusing on corporate governance, which many see as a critical part of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and which is also seen as unresponsive to calls for change, this paper argues that such harmonization is possible,...
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contrast, Japan's FDI in the services sectors in ASEAN has been growing rapidly. The recent phenomenon of the Singapore Shift … establish a commercial presence in Singapore, which they expect to be the "hub" of Southeast Asia, thereby enabling them to … supply services to the entire ASEAN region. The magnitude of the Singapore Shift varies for every services sub-sector. By …
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Singapore has developed a unique housing system, with three-quarters of its housing stock built by the Housing … Government of Singapore was faced with a different set of housing problems. An integrated land-housing supply and financing …
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's Republic of China (PRC), Malaysia, and Singapore. In contrast to two traditional approaches to exchange rate regimes in East … gradually from a dollar peg to a basket peg. In response to the PRC's shift, both Malaysia and Singapore would opt to shift …
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Commodity prices have become volatile over the past 2 decades, and their recent sharp decline has decreased the consumer price index inflation rates for most economies. While many Asian economies have benefited from low international oil and food prices, commodity exporters have suffered. Thus,...
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