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This Selected Issues paper focuses on the real estate market and Expo 2020 in the United Arab Emirates. It discusses the measures that could mitigate risks associated with the real estate cycle and the international experience with real estate booms and hosting large events such as World Expos,...
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case of Singapore, a newly-industrialized economy in Asia. Interval regressions are employed because of grouped dependent … studies indicates that intergenerational earnings mobility in Singapore may be moderately low when compared internationally …. Education as a means through which parents invest in their children's future earnings appears important. There are some small …
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countries: Singapore and Thailand. The economic crisis had interrupted three decades of steady growth that had been accompanied … by remarkable progress in poverty reduction and a betterment of social indicators like health and education. In … more acute in Thailand and with the wake of unemployment and decrease in real wages, income inequality increased both in …
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“Race†and racial categories play a significant role in everyday life and state organization in Singapore. While … article explores national narratives of race, culture and belonging as they have developed over time, used as a tool for the … recognition of “mixed raceâ€. It illustrates how state-led understandings of race and “mixed race†describe processes of both …
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With Singapore having the fifth fastest aging population in the world, the implications associated with such as a … phenomenon have finally placed the elderly on the Singapore Government's national agenda in 1999. As the elderly constitute an … increasing proportion of Singapore's population, it is pertinent to address their needs and concerns, which have direct impacts …
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