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Brunei Darussalam Student Assessment : SABER Country Report 2013
World Bank Group - 2013
Brunei Darussalam has focused on increasing student learning outcomes by improving the quality of education in the … understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of its existing assessment system, Brunei decided to benchmark this system using …
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Singapore Teachers : SABER Country Report 2015
Joo, Lim Kek - 2017
This report presents the results of the SABER-Teachers tool as applied in Singapore. A collaborative effort between the UNESCO International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030 and the World Bank Group's SABER-Teachers initiative made this report possible. All data collection, related...
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A Brief Overview on the Road Safety Approach in Singapore
World Bank Group - 2019
The report introduces how the Safe System Approach works, with a focus on road infrastructure and road safety engineering best practices from one of the best performing countries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Singapore. Singapore roads are not only considered the safest in the region, they...
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Building Human Capital : Lessons from Country Experiences - Singapore
Yusuf, Shahid - 2020
Singapore has demonstrated that investing in human capital can have a high payoff and that nothing is impossible. Its example should inspire others to redouble their own efforts, not to replicate the model in its entirety necessarily but to take full advantage of the various lessons that can be...
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Can the Knowledge Capital Model Explain Foreign Investment in Services? : The Case of Singapore
Chellaraj, Gnanaraj - 2015
Singapore has been a powerful magnet for foreign direct investment and in recent years has also made significant investments abroad, especially in developing countries and increasingly in services. This paper analyzes the determinants of Singapore's investment using the Knowledge-Capital Model...
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Building a Competitive City through Innovation and Global Knowledge : The Case of Sino-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park
Zeng, Douglas Zhihua - 2016
Special economic zones can be an effective instrument to promote industrialization if implemented properly in the right context. In China, starting in the 1980s, special economic zones were used as a testing ground for the country's transition from a planned to a market economy, and they are a...
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Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City : A Case Study of an Emerging Eco-City in China
World Bank - 2009
China is experiencing rapid and large scale urbanization, and the resulting local and global urban environmental challenges are unprecedented. The Chinese Government has fully recognized these challenges and is aiming to promote more sustainable urbanization in line with the objectives of the...
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Malaysia's economic growth and transition to high income : an application of the World Bank Long Term Growth Model (LTGM)
Devadas, Sharmila; Guzman, Jorge; Kim, Young Eun; … - 2020
This paper studies economic growth in Malaysia, with the purpose of assessing the potential to attain the status and …-Term Growth Model (LTGM). Under the business-as-usual baseline, Malaysia's GDP growth is expected to decline from 4.5 to 2 … capital and slowing growth rates of total factor productivity and human capital. Strong reforms are required for Malaysia to …
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Resource misallocation and productivity gaps in Malaysia
Lay Lian Chuah; Loayza, Norman; Nguyen, Ha - 2018
realization of hypothetical productivity gains, show that Malaysia's gross domestic product growth can potentially increase by 0 …
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Malaysia Economic Monitor, June 2016 : Leveraging Trade Agreements
World Bank - 2016
The MEM is the World Bank's biannual flagship publication on Malaysia. It provides analysis of recent economic … developments and the near-term outlook for Malaysia. Each publication also focuses on a special topic related to Malaysia …'s transformation into a high-income economy. Malaysia is at the forefront of a "new generation" of trade agreements that will shape …
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