"Provides a comprehensive understanding of Singapore's past development and future success as a global financial centre. It focuses on three transformational processes that have determined the city-state's financial sector development and governance--globalisation, financialisation, and...

This book provides an analysis of Singapore’s development and success as an international financial centre (IFC). Chapters demonstrate how Singapore plays a critical role in both Asian and global financial markets, despite its relatively small geographic size. The author focuses specifically...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: IFC studies and the Politics of Finance -- Chapter 3: Taking a Public Policy Theoretical Approach -- Chapter 4: Hong Kong -- Chapter 5: Singapore.- Chapter 6: Shanghai -- Chapter 7: Comparisons and Analysis -- Chapter 8: Conclusions. Bibliography -- Appendices.