Using a panel of five Asian economies - Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand - over the period 1995 …-2007 we analyze the links between firm survival and financial development. We find that traditionally used measures of … financial development play an important role in influencing firm survival. When stock markets become larger or more liquid firms …

Knowledge has been defined as a major resource for development. Especially countries without natural resources have … found this idea attractive and have embarked on development strategies to develop a knowledge-based economy. In doing so … research funds for the next stage of development. A shortage of high-level manpower is likely to occur, which will reduce the …

, Malaysia, Singapore - with the larger ocean space, the Indian Ocean. Focusing on the maritime potential of nations represents … the other principal component of CenPRIS’s ocean research cluster. The development of the “CenPRIS Ocean Index” will …’s new Ocean Policy. Another research project under the cluster will examine the development of Penang as a knowledge hub in …

We apply the Gross City Development Index (GCD-Index) by Ruiz Estrada and Park (2019) in the case of Singapore. The GCD … of any city. We apply the GCD-Index to study the development of Singapore, between 2000 and 2023 to provide a sense of …-Index calculation is based on the concept of city integral sustainable development platform. The platform consists of ten main …

ABSTRACT Singapore plays a leading role in changing the destiny of post colonial countries in Asian region, by …. When other Asian countries faced a chequered history of economic under development, political instability and social unrest …, Singapore attempted a brave step towards liberalization, international trade and capitalistic growth strategy which ultimately …

. Development Economic Theory embraces the expectation of a direct relationship between economic growth and export diversification … proposes a Specialization Index and applies it to six small developing countries: Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia, Mexico …

Research on Singapore's economic history has been complicated by the absence of economic data on pre …-independence Singapore. This book aims to fill the gap by presenting a time-series of historical GDP estimates for the periods 1900–39 and … 1950–60. The new data presented in the book sheds light on two key aspects of Singapore's economic history, namely the …