The growth of Singapore as a city started only in the nineteenth century when Sir Stamford Raffles landed there in search of a commercial centre for the (British) East India Company which acquired the whole island in 1824. The island had then only a few traders and fishermen. Shortly, however,...

The leitmotif of this paper is the strong, rising and alarming trend of deficits in Australia's balance of payments current account, which makes it overwhelmingly important to increase exports. Market promotion, substantially the existing method, will not do the job in a world with politically...