capital, is a valuable intangible asset and a key source of national competitive advantage in today’s knowledge economy. The … implications for a regional cluster. This volume focuses on China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan …

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 …

investigation of Singapore's long-term economic growth. … History of Singapore prior to Independence -- 1.2.2 Literature Review on the Construction of Historical Statistics -- 1 … Singapore -- 1.4 Layout of the Book -- Chapter Two The Construction of Historical Gross Domestic Product Estimates of Singapore …