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Singapore's Success: Engineering Economic Growth
- Published by Cengage Learning Asia
This monograph seeks the key to good economic policy by explaining Singapore's remarkably rapid development-the world's fastest-growing economy between 1960 and 2000-and asks whether the city-state's success can be translated to other countries. Engineering prosperity is at the heart of Singapore. The book demonstrates how exceptional cohesion amongst economic outcomes, policies, institutions, values, and leadership over a long period account for the impressive results obtained. The author is careful not to present Singapore as a model to be copied uncritically in its specifics but as a case history that illustrates general principles which other countries might wish to apply to their particular circumstances.
Key features include:
- Lays out simply and clearly the interaction between fiscal and monetary prudence, capital accumulation and labor force improvement, openness to foreign investment, predictability of the policy environment, and not least, how the Singapore government co-opted popular support by providing opportunities for all, including ethnic minorities
- Emphasizes general principles, while illustrating their specific implementation in the Singapore context, to make the book relevant to policy-makers elsewhere
- Published/Released: June 2009
- Original Copyright: 2006
- ISBN 13: 9789814253642
- ISBN 10: 9814253642
- Product number: 248709
- Page count: 200
- Shipping Weight: 0.00 lbs (0.00 kgs)
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