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Tan, Chek-Ming. "Strategic planning--an application to the Services Development Division (of the Singapore Economic Development Board) and its Logistics Strategic Business Unit." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10953.

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Wong, Hon Lung. "Population and economic development in Singapore." Thesis, University of Macau, 1991. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1636959.

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Hopf, Gregor. "The economic development of Singapore : saving and investment in Singapore 1965-99." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408072.

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Sie, Kok Hwa Brigitte. "Singapore, a modern asian city-state relationship between cultural and economic development /." [Nijmegen? : s.n.], 1997. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/39954650.html.

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Carter, Connie. "Law and economic development in Singapore 1959-1999." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268912.

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Tan, Philip Whatt-Chye. "Economic development and social growth in Singapore a case study, 1968-1986 /." access full-text online access from Digital dissertation consortium, 1988. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?ML50390.

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Ho, Kim Hin David. "The effects of seaport policy on national economic development in Singapore." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.295350.

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Heng, Teck-Kin. "Overseas Chinese capitalism and globalisation : Chinese businesses, entrepreneurship and economic development in Singapore /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16938.pdf.

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Lee, Kin-ying Esmond, and 李建英. "Financial sector development in Hong Kong and Singapore: competitive or complementary." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1991. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31949964.

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Kiang, H. S. "The role of the labour market in the economic development of Singapore 1960-1984." Thesis, University of Kent, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.383416.

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Brown, Ross C. "Foreign direct investment and regional economic development : backward electronics linkages in Scotland and Singapore." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1996. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21237.

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This thesis examines the material linkages generated by electronics foreign direct investment (FDI) in Scotland and Singapore. The reason for undertaking the research owes to the general perception that FDI has not developed strong local supply linkages in Scotland. Given that linkages between multinationals and local suppliers constitute the most important long-term benefit from FDI -in terms of additional employment, technology and skills- this seems worrying for Scotland's long-term economic development. Although FDI has become the standard vehicle ameliorating the industrial restructuring process in less favoured regions, our understanding of linkages remains poor. Recent theoretical discourses within the spatial literature claim organisational change within multinationals is improving the prospects for localised linkages. Critics of this scenario point out that linkage formation in less favoured regions remains weak. In order to assess these diverging claims, empirical informa tion collected using intensive research techniques examines the extent, nature, and quality of linkages generated by a small sample of electronics multinationals in Scotland and Singapore. Findings from empirical material point towards quite low linkage formation in both regions. Although higher linkage levels were found in Singapore, this mainly owed to FDI in Singapore's higher value supply sectors. On the whole linkages tend to be concentrated in low value supply areas such as fabricated metal and plastic parts, particularly in Scotland. These rather limited linkages effects go against the claims made by the localisation school mentioned above. The key causal factors inhibiting local linkage development were examined by scrutinising various plant-level characteristics such as procurement autonomy and design. Inter-plant sourcing differentials reveal that truncated plant autonomy in key areas of decision making responsibility, particularly design, play a significant part in preventing linkage development. In this respect, Singapore's policies towards developing more autonomous design-intensive FDI seems to facilitate local linkage development. In order to to maximise its regional economic potential, the thesis concludes with the need for greater policy intervention towards FDI and ends with specific policy recommendations aimed at increasing linkages in Scotland.

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Lee, Ka-yan Vivian. "Who will be hercules in the 21st century? : economic and social development : a comparative study of Hong Kong and Singapore /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B23425714.

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Jun, Solarz Seung Gyu. "The role of the government in national economic development planning the effectiveness of the Korean Economic Planning Board /." La Verne, Calif. : University of La Verne, 1992. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/28824977.html.

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Sung, Yuk-yee Peggy, and 宋玉儀. "Prospect for Johor, Malaysia: a resort for Singapore, following the development pattern of Shenzhen, PRC." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B32000686.

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Lee, Ka-yan Vivian, and 李家欣. "Who will be hercules in the 21st century?: economic and social development : a comparative study of Hong Kongand Singapore." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31953116.

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Fong, Yiu Tung James. "Chinese language policy in Singapore : how it reflects the government's goals of economic development and multiculturalism." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2006. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/729.

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Chien, Shiuh-Shen. "Policy innovation, asymmetric decentralization and local economic development in post-Mao China : case studies of China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park and Kunshan Economic and Technological Development Zone." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2006. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1929/.

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The Chinese government's economic reforms over the last couple of decades have led to rapid economic growth for the country. However, many empirical studies on the post-Mao China show that the economic transition towards market economy is in large part actually propelled by active local governments, which are encouraged to make policy innovations in order to promote better local economic development. This thesis aims to offer an understanding on how, why and under what circumstances the local governments of post-Mao China - while still controlled by a one-party communist regime- are able to make policy innovations to deal with business operating under market transition conditions. Theoretically, the phenomenon of local policy innovation can be analyzed with a framework involving three dimensions. First, local policy innovation can be seen to take place in order to respond to challenges presented by the changing macro development environments. Second, local policy innovation can be understood as a consequence of changing responsibilities and competencies between central and local governments. Third, local policy innovation may be related to the dynamics of local-central strategic interactions. Empirically, with the contextual approach as its chosen methodology, this theoretical framework is applied to two successful cases of innovation in Jiangsu province within the Yangtze Delta of post-Mao China: Kunshan Economic and Technological Development Zone (KETZ); and China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park (CSSIP). The history of these two national development zones identifies the former as a case of a 'locally initiated project' while the latter represents an example of 'local implementation of a centrally initiated project'. In terms of types of local-central dynamic interaction, 'state- intention to tolerate', 'ex-post state endorsement', and 'ex-ante state adoption' were seen sequentially in the case of KETZ, while 'marginalizing the local', 'local obedience', and 'local flexibility' operated simultaneously in the case of CSSIP. The thesis concludes that in post-Mao China significant local policy innovations were able to take place when localities encountered structural changes, including China's reengaging with globalization, changing local-central relations, and serious territorial competition. Actions of local policy innovations were ignited by agents, across scales, whose self-interests were highly involved in local economic development in the context of asymmetric decentralization. More specifically, in the post-Mao China context of economic decentralization to the local combined with political centralization under the party, career-minded local officials utilized their decentralized 'economic resources' to strive for more development, which in turn became their 'political capital' with the upper-level government to get themselves promoted.

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Jeon, Jei Guk. "The political economy of micro-variation in East Asian development patterning : a comparative study of Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Thailand /." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/26964266.html.

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Furlund, Eivind B. "Singapore, from third to first world country : The effect of development in Little India and Chinatown." Thesis, Trondheim : Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Department of Geography, 2008. http://ntnu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:124648/FULLTEXT01.

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Chiang, Tan Ping, University of Western Sydney, of Performance Fine Arts and Design Faculty, and School of Design. "From the traditional wet market to the modern supermarket." THESIS_FPFAD_SD_Chiang_T.xml, 1999. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/90.

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The successful economic growth and the rapid changing of urban development had changed Singapore from a developing to a developed country. The living environment of Singapore has been changed with in the last 25 years. My thesis mainly describes foods and food markets in Singapore. Due to better educational background, higher consumption power and small family planning, the eating habit of Singaporeans has changed. A lot of young Singaporeans today, don't buy their daily marketing needs from the traditional wet market for they prefer to do their weekly marketing in the comfortable, clean, convenient and air conditioned modern supermarket. With the advance electronic cooking equipment in kitchen, they save time in cooking to buy prepared or instant cooked food from supermarkets, instead of raw foodstuff from the traditional wet markets. These rapid changes of the Singaporeans' life style and eating habit created an opportunity. For me to look into the area that directly or indirectly involved with my professional work as a practicing graphic designer and a design educator. The area I am looking into is 'the value of food packaging'. I realized that the contrast of the traditional foodstuffs selling in traditional wet market and the imported foodstuffs displayed within the modern supermarket, the difference has signaled a strong message. If the traditional foodstuffs still does not improve their dull and unhygienic image to catch up with the rapid changing urban living environment. They will disappear from our dining table sooner or later. My thesis has to reach 2 aims. Firstly, to awake the design students (tomorrow's designer). To be more sensitive towards the local traditional food markets. Discover the values of the local ethnic foodstuffs and going to find out why these delicious and remarkable local foodstuffs been rejected outside of the modern supermarket. To create a new image through packaging design to replace with the original dull and unhygienic image. Secondly, the contents and the criterias of the modern packaging design I proposed within this thesis, could be applicable in the practicing design field, food manufactory and most importantly, in the design institutions
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MacKinnon, Daniel Finlayson. "Local governance and economic development : re-figuring state regulation in the Scottish Highlands." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/17575.

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This thesis examines the politics of local, governance in the Scottish Highlands, taking the Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) network - made up of a central core and 10 Local Enterprise Companies (LECs) - as its institutional focus. It synthesises regulationist approaches and neo-Marxist state theory to explain LECs as part of a broader process of re-regulation under consecutive Conservative governments. LECs are unelected, business-led agencies operating at the local level. The political discourse through which LECs were established and promoted created expectations of local autonomy among business representatives that clashed with the centralising tendencies of Thatcherism. The thesis examines how the resultant tension between local initiative and central control has been worked out within the HIE network. It relies on data collected from seventy semi-structured interviews with representatives of HIE, LECs, local authorities, businesses and community groups. The initial chapters introduce the research and consider key methodological issues, set out the theoretical framework, and review the practices of the Highlands and Islands Development Board (HIDB, HIE's successor). The thesis then explores the key tension between local initiative and central control, explaining how it has been mediated and resolved through routine institutional practices. It also examines HIE-LECs relations with other key agencies, notably local authorities, through selected examples of multi-agency partnerships and assesses LECs' local accountability and representativeness. Finally, a concluding chapter sets out the main findings and considers their implications. While key managerial 'technologies' such as targeting, audit and financial controls allow central government to monitor and steer the HIE network, the thesis argues that the authoritative resources of the HIE core - grounded in the combination of local knowledge and technical expertise inherited from the HIDB - enables it to adapt key aspects of the operating regime to its own purposes. Local autonomy is limited by the relative centralisation of the Network, and LECs operate in a system of structured flexibility in which their scope to adapt policy to local conditions is constrained by state rules and procedures. In emphasising that local autonomy is limited by hierarchical mechanisms of control, the thesis argues that local governance in the Scottish Highlands continues to be underpinned by government. It also points to the limits of the regulation approach and neo-Marxist state theory as theoretical perspectives, suggesting that neo-Foucauldian writings on govemmentality are useful in providing stronger analytical purchase on the specific mechanisms and procedures through which state regulation is practised.

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Lau, Wai-kuen Grace, and 劉慧娟. "The trend of the economic transformation of Hong Kong as compared withthe other Asian NIES." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1992. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31977017.

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Leigh, Lamin. "Financial development, economic growth and the effect of financial innovation on the demand for money in an open economy : an econometric analysis for Singapore." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282018.

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Kwan, Yee-fai Mike. "A comparative study of the growth triangles in Asian Pacific rim : lessons for regional development planning /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18039972.

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Kumnuch, Em-Amorn. "A Comparison of the Higher Education Systems of Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong as a Model for Developing Nations, 1945-1980." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278806/.

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The purposes of this study were to (a) examine higher education activities from 1945 to 1980 before Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong became newly industrialized countries; (b) study the higher education reforms that each country made in its progress in order to meet the challenge; (c) compare and contrast the higher education systems that were adopted; and (d) identify a single Asian higher education system model (descriptive model) for any country that desires to become an industrialized country. Historical research was utilized in this study. This study was approached as follows: First, the economic growth of the countries under study was examined. Then, the countries' higher education systems were compared and contrasted. The result is at least one possible higher education system model that can be used by any country to improve the future performance of its higher education system. The study concluded that the models of higher education used by Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong from 1945 to 1980 were not identical. However, they came to similar conclusions in terms of economic development. In this case, an emerging industrial country like the social and economic condition of Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong would find that adoption of those higher education models might be appropriate. For instance, an emerging country with a social and economic system like Taiwan would find Taiwan's higher education model appropriate for adoption in that country. On the other hand, if an emerging industrial nation has social and economic criteria dissimilar to those of Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong, a proposed single model of higher education would be appropriate, with an adjustment to suit the national resources, cultural background, and structure of trades and the labor force of that country.

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Gorvy, Sean B. "Capital accumulation, local democracy and the state : tension management in urban economic development in the UK with special reference to the London Docklands Development Corporation and the West Midlands Enterprise Board, 1981-1990." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239372.

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Azad, Abul Kalam. "Determinants of Asian Democratisation (1981-2005)." AUT University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/952.

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As a culturally distinctive region, Asia was chosen as the sample for this study. This empirical study investigated what the major trends of democratisation were in Asia between 1981 and 2005: why some countries became democratic while other countries failed to follow suit during that period. The main research hypothesis was: “That is it was mainly economic development that drove democratisation in Asia between 1981 and 2005”. Although some studies have studied the impact of economic development on democratisation in Asia, their findings have been inconclusive and focuses sometimes different. [To investigate the research hypothesis, 24 Asian countries were selected…measurement tools used etc…] For this research work, statistical and case study methods were applied. The data used in the analyses were collected from established data sources e.g. Freedom House (Freedom in the World, n.d.) and United Nations Statistics Division (UN Stat, n.d.). Repeated Measures in Linear Mixed Modeling (LMM) were used to analyse the quantitative data. Three case studies supplemented the findings of statistical analyses. Historical information and institutional and legal facts were also used in the case studies. This study found that increases in the level of economic development along with its equitable distribution in society and positive roles of political actors increase the level of democratisation in Asia. Some pro-democratic political and social institutions, such as tradition of parliamentarianism, and international organisations, for example Bretton wood institutions, also led to democratisation. A low extent of national political divide was found to result in a considerably high level of democratisation in a country where confrontation between major political forces is the main feature of politics. This study also found that a partial democracy with Asian values, economic legitimacy, a lack of corruption and a “systematic control” over opposition politicians can survive, and is not prone to higher level of democratisation. The Taiwan case revealed that, amongst other factors, the role of political actors and economic equity along with economic development is also vital for democratisation. The Singapore case explained how a “hybrid regime” in a rich country outsmarts democratisation. The study of Bangladesh provides an idea about other elements, e.g. lower level of political confrontation, that push for higher levels of democratisation.

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Au, Si-mi Anna, and 區仕美. "A review on problems faced by land development corporation in launching urban renewal programmes." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31967991.

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Wafi, Tarek. "A l’exploration de la stratégie de développement des cités-états globales : une étude de cas comparative entre les facteurs clés de développement à Hong Kong, Singapour, Abu Dhabi, et Dubaï." Thesis, Paris 4, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA040050.

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La majorité de la littérature académique sur les théories de développement économique se fonde sur l’analyse des d’Etats-nations. Or, après avoir pratiquement disparu jusqu’aux années 1960, les cités-états se manifestent à nouveau comme des exemples de succès de prospérité économique. Contrairement à l’antiquité et la renaissance, pendant lesquelles les cités-états les plus connus d’un point de vue économique se situaient en Europe, les cités-états modernes se situent notamment en Asie et au Moyen-Orient. Le but de cette recherche sera d’explorer, d’analyser, et de conceptualiser les facteurs clés de succès économique des cités-états contemporaines à l’exemple de Hong Kong, Singapour, Abu Dhabi et Dubaï pour arriver à un modèle de développement économique spécifique aux cités-états. Après une étude de cas comparative, il faut d’abord souligner le fait qu’une conceptualisation de la stratégie de développement des cités-états nécessite une prise en compte des facteurs non-économiques, notamment des facteurs historiques, géographiques, ainsi que politiques. Suite à l’analyse de ces facteurs, nous pouvons regrouper les principales caractéristiques en quatre catégories, notamment la création d’une identité corporative, la flexibilité de la main d’œuvre, l’intégration régionale-internationale, ainsi que l’utilisation des outils de city branding à des buts relatifs au développement de la cité-état. En regroupant les différentes similarités entre les stratégies de développement des cités-états étudiés, nous pouvons donc estimer que les cités-états globales adoptent une stratégie de globalisation où, contrairement à ce que l’on pourrait penser, une forte intervention de l’état coexiste avec des mesures de libéralisation économique
City-states have thrived in the antiquity and the renaissance period as exemplified by the city-states of Athens, Venice or Hamburg. In modern times, city-states have widely disappeared until the 1960s, when city-states and city-state structures in Asia and the Middle East have re-emerged and proven to become considered as examples of successful economic development and prosperity. The aim of this research paper was to explore, analyze and conceptualize the main factors of economic development in Singapore, Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Findings suggest that in order to analyze the economic development strategy in a comprehensive way, non-economic factors (namely historical factors, geographical factors, and political factors) need to be taken into consideration. Based on the analysis of the different factors, we can identify a common strategy based on four major characteristics: the creation of a corporative identity, labor flexibility, regional-international embeddedness, and the utilization of city branding tools for development-related purposes. This strategic development model for global city-states can be referred to as an integrated globalization strategy and implies that contrary to what we may see in the literature on the development strategies of nation-states, state intervention in city-states not only co-exists with but reinforces the globalization and economic liberalization process. In other words, the decision-makers in global city-states do not passively bear the consequences of globalization but actively use globalization as a tool for economic development, thus justifying and reinforcing the legitimacy of their intervention

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Anyanwu, Ogechi Emmanuel. "THE POLICIES AND POLITICS OF MASSIFICATION OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN NIGERIA, 1952-2000." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1159589539.

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Hendawi, Raed Diab Moh’d. "Assessment Of Corporate Governance Practices In Jordan: An Empirical Investigation." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/12980.

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Corporate Governance (CG) nowadays is on the agenda of most developed and developing countries, including Jordan, and is receiving considerable attention in the business world as well as in the area of academic research, which is an indication of its importance for business development and society as a whole. The knowledge base about CG in developing countries appears to be limited, but it is growing in size and importance. This study therefore aims to investigate current CG practices and barriers to the development of good CG practices in firms. In order to accomplish the research objectives, a mixed research methodology was adopted. The findings of the study contribute to knowledge by providing empirical data to test and extend the theory of CG. The results suggest that most big and old firms are applying best practice of good CG. Regarding factors inhibiting the practice of effective CG, the results indicate that weakness of the legal environment for firms and lack of knowledge of BODs about CG principles are the most important factors. The empirical results find that constitution, compliance and conscience will affect firm’s performance positively. Separation between the position of CEO and Chairman, the existence of independent NEDs, the use of board subcommittees and a strong disclosure regime also help firms to improve performance. On the basis of the empirical results, the study recommends that the government needs to reform the relevant legislation. These suggestions may strengthen the internal governance of firms, thereby increasing performance and maximise shareholders’ wealth.

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Hendawi, Raed Diab Moh'd. "Assessment of corporate governance practices in Jordan : an empirical investigation." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/12980.

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Corporate Governance (CG) nowadays is on the agenda of most developed and developing countries, including Jordan, and is receiving considerable attention in the business world as well as in the area of academic research, which is an indication of its importance for business development and society as a whole. The knowledge base about CG in developing countries appears to be limited, but it is growing in size and importance. This study therefore aims to investigate current CG practices and barriers to the development of good CG practices in firms. In order to accomplish the research objectives, a mixed research methodology was adopted. The findings of the study contribute to knowledge by providing empirical data to test and extend the theory of CG. The results suggest that most big and old firms are applying best practice of good CG. Regarding factors inhibiting the practice of effective CG, the results indicate that weakness of the legal environment for firms and lack of knowledge of BODs about CG principles are the most important factors. The empirical results find that constitution, compliance and conscience will affect firm’s performance positively. Separation between the position of CEO and Chairman, the existence of independent NEDs, the use of board subcommittees and a strong disclosure regime also help firms to improve performance. On the basis of the empirical results, the study recommends that the government needs to reform the relevant legislation. These suggestions may strengthen the internal governance of firms, thereby increasing performance and maximise shareholders’ wealth.

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Daly, Marwa El. "Challenges and potentials of channeling local philanthropy towards development and aocial justice and the role of waqf (Islamic and Arab-civic endowments) in building community foundations." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16511.

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Diese Arbeit bietet eine solide theoretische Grundlage zu Philanthropie und religiös motivierten Spendenaktivitäten und deren Einfluss auf Wohltätigkeitstrends, Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und einer auf dem Gedanken der sozialen Gerechtigkeit beruhenden Philanthropie. Untersucht werden dafür die Strukturen religiös motivierte Spenden, für die in der islamischen Tradition die Begriffe „zakat“, „Waqf“ oder im Plural auch „awqaf-“ oder „Sadaqa“ verwendet werden, der christliche Begriff dafür lautet „tithes“ oder „ushour“. Aufbauend auf diesem theoretischen Rahmenwerk analysiert die qualitative und quantitative Feldstudie auf nationaler Ebene, wie die ägyptische Öffentlichkeit Philanthropie, soziale Gerechtigkeit, Menschenrechte, Spenden, Freiwilligenarbeit und andere Konzepte des zivilgesellschaftlichen Engagements wahrnimmt. Um eine umfassende und repräsentative Datengrundlage zu erhalten, wurden 2000 Haushalte, 200 zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen erfasst, sowie Spender, Empfänger, religiöse Wohltäter und andere Akteure interviewt. Die so gewonnen Erkenntnisse lassen aussagekräftige Aufschlüsse über philanthropische Trends zu. Erstmals wird so auch eine finanzielle Einschätzung und Bewertung der Aktivitäten im lokalen Wohltätigkeitsbereich möglich, die sich auf mehr als eine Billion US-Dollar beziffern lassen. Die Erhebung weist nach, dass gemessen an den Pro-Kopf-Aufwendungen die privaten Spendenaktivitäten weitaus wichtiger sind als auswärtige wirtschaftliche Hilfe für Ägypten. Das wiederum lässt Rückschlüsse zu, welche Bedeutung lokale Wohltätigkeit erlangen kann, wenn sie richtig gesteuert wird und nicht wie bislang oft im Teufelskreis von ad-hoc-Spenden oder Hilfen von Privatperson an Privatperson gefangen ist. Die Studie stellt außerdem eine Verbindung her zwischen lokalen Wohltätigkeits-Mechanismen, die meist auf religiösen und kulturellen Werten beruhen, und modernen Strukturen, wie etwa Gemeinde-Stiftungen oder Gemeinde-„waqf“, innerhalb derer die Spenden eine nachhaltige Veränderung bewirken können. Daher bietet diese Arbeit also eine umfassende wissenschaftliche Grundlage, die nicht nur ein besseres Verständnis, sondern auch den nachhaltiger Aus- und Aufbau lokaler Wohltätigkeitsstrukturen in Ägypten ermöglicht. Zentral ist dabei vor allem die Rolle lokaler, individueller Spenden, die beispielsweise für Stiftungen auf der Gemeindeebene eingesetzt, wesentlich zu einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung beitragen könnten – und das nicht nur in Ägypten, sondern in der gesamten arabischen Region. Als konkretes Ergebnis dieser Arbeit, wurde ein innovatives Modell entwickelt, dass neben den wissenschaftlichen Daten das Konzept der „waqf“ berücksichtigt. Der Wissenschaftlerin und einem engagierten Vorstand ist es auf dieser Grundlage gelungen, die Waqfeyat al Maadi Community Foundation (WMCF) zu gründen, die nicht nur ein Modell für eine Bürgerstiftung ist, sondern auch das tradierte Konzept der „waqf“ als praktikable und verbürgte Wohlstätigkeitsstruktur sinnvoll weiterentwickelt.
This work provides a solid theoretical base on philanthropy, religious giving (Islamic zakat, ‘ushour, Waqf -plural: awqaf-, Sadaqa and Christian tithes or ‘ushour), and their implications on giving trends, development work, social justice philanthropy. The field study (quantitative and qualitative) that supports the theoretical framework reflects at a national level the Egyptian public’s perceptions on philanthropy, social justice, human rights, giving and volunteering and other concepts that determine the peoples’ civic engagement. The statistics cover 2000 households, 200 Civil Society Organizations distributed all over Egypt and interviews donors, recipients, religious people and other stakeholders. The numbers reflect philanthropic trends and for the first time provide a monetary estimate of local philanthropy of over USD 1 Billion annually. The survey proves that the per capita share of philanthropy outweighs the per capita share of foreign economic assistance to Egypt, which implies the significance of local giving if properly channeled, and not as it is actually consumed in the vicious circle of ad-hoc, person to person charity. In addition, the study relates local giving mechanisms derived from religion and culture to modern actual structures, like community foundations or community waqf that could bring about sustainable change in the communities. In sum, the work provides a comprehensive scientific base to help understand- and build on local philanthropy in Egypt. It explores the role that local individual giving could play in achieving sustainable development and building a new wave of community foundations not only in Egypt but in the Arab region at large. As a tangible result of this thesis, an innovative model that revives the concept of waqf and builds on the study’s results was created by the researcher and a dedicated board of trustees who succeeded in establishing Waqfeyat al Maadi Community Foundation (WMCF) that not only introduces the community foundation model to Egypt, but revives and modernizes the waqf as a practical authentic philanthropic structure.

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Lin, Chen-yu, and 林震宇. "The Role of Economic Development Board in the Singapore Industrial Development Context." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99020035198457714470.

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國立中山大學
企業管理學系研究所
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During the process of the Singapore economy development, its “elite government” has to attract the multinational companies to invest in Singapore. Among the public organization, Singapore Economic Development Board（EDB） is the statutory institute of marketing the Singapore investment environment. After set up in 1961, EDB has been engaged in creating employment opportunities. In order to improve the most valuable asset of Singaporean, EDB also designs several human resource training programs and training centers. The organization culture of EDB is the key success factor which contributes to following the changes of international economy situation and working out suitable economic policies for Singapore industry. In the past the government takes the responsibility of leading the Singaporean toward the economic vision, but recently the Singapore government aggressively encourages the people to start up a new enterprise instead to avoid depending foreign investments excessively and to balance the economic ecosystem to achieve more value-added. My thesis does a case study of hard disk drive industry in ch4 to show the notable position of EDB in industry development context. In the ch5 the emerging biomedical industry will discuss the transformation from national economic plans to technology entrepreneurship. The future of Singapore economy development depends on whether the policy works or not.

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Yeh, Pei-wen, and 葉佩雯. "A Study on the Economic Development Strategy in Singapore." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3fg4k3.

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南華大學
亞太研究所
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Singapore locates in the Southeast-Asia region where geography scope is narrow and small, but the position is fairly superior, all have an important status whatever in economics and trade or strategy, and display influence by national economy development strategy. Therefore, Singapore has turned an international metropolis since British colony where is having in function of transferring trade and neighborhood to become a business center, and unceasingly prospers the development from now on. 　　　Singapore’s premier has been through successively Lee, Kuan-Yew, Goh, Chok-Tong and to the incumbent Lee, Hsien-Loong. The government rules over under Singapore with powerful leadership and starts aiming at the economic development strategy in Singapore present situation to promote. 　　　Singapore embarks on the reality and practices omni-directional opening that Singapore’s economy is a fusion of the world economics, its impels the international division of labor actively and carries out foreign trade investment policy by using the foreign resource, the market, the technique and the funds and so on, and to push knowledge-based economy policy to respond the approach of economic globalization, Singapore participates international economy organization to promote an international position which is helpful to impel the regional economy in Singapore, for example: The Association of Southeast Asia Nations, Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore Growth Triangle. This article seeks to not only depict the state, the region and the international of three levels in Singapore economic policy, but also explore the formation, the evolution and the valuation have towards Singapore’s regional economy.

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Li, Jun-sing, and 李君星. "The Economic Stability Board and Development of Taiwan's Industry." Thesis, 1995. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98838069239184617479.

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Lombard, John R. "Foreign direct investment in producer services the role and impact upon the economic growth and development of Singapore /." 1990. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/33050932.html.

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Mei-Chen, Shen, and 沈美辰. "The Relationship between Political Change and Economic Development: A Comparative Study of Taiwan and Singapore." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51343259588460950181.

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國立成功大學
政治經濟研究所
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Abstract Both Singapore and Taiwan are among the Asian Four Little Tigers. They have achieved great economic development in the past years. Especially Singapore has become a developed country in 1996. Although both nations have the same successful economic development, they have very different accomplishments in political change. The authority of the KMT regime got loose in the 1980’s and finally lost its ruling power in the presidential election in 2000. On the contrary, the PAP’s authoritarian governing style hasn’t encountered serious challenges during the process of Singapore’s economic development. Today the PAP still maintains its dominant status in Singapore. There are various theories about the relationship between economic development and political change. The modernization theory is the most representative one. Its major thesis is that economic development will trigger political democratization. Taiwan’s developmental experience is in accordance with the modernization theory. But obviously the relationship between economic development and political change of Singapore is not compatible with the modernization theory. Up to now, Singapore’s situation is more likely what the regime stability theory predicts, namely successful economic development will consolidate the existing ruling power. In my opinion, the modernization theory and the regime stability theory have the same defect that both of them simplify the relationship between economic development and political change unduly. And that’s why they are unable to explain fully the different experiences of Taiwan and Singapore. Apparently, there are some other factors between economic development and political change. According to the analysis and comparison of Taiwan and Singapore, this paper finds ethnic problem, national identity, and the autonomy and capacity of state to be among the major factors to cause the difference in political change betwen Taiwan and Singapore. It’s impossible to expound definitely about the discrepancy of the relationship between economic development and political change of Taiwan and Singapore without these factors.

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Seaman, David. "Economic Development and Political Change in Comparative Perspective: Developmental States in South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore." Doctoral thesis, 2016. https://repositorium.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/handle/urn:nbn:de:gbv:700-2016051914475.

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This study investigates how the structure and activities of states shape societies in different ways during processes of economic development. The analysis explores how the particular institutional configurations of developmental states in South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore shaped trajectories of social change in ways which impacted processes of political change at later points in time. Using a path dependency approach, the study argues that a critical juncture took place in these three countries at various points in their early post-colonial periods, during which time state elites undertook a comprehensive program of reorganizing the state, society, and the organizational and institutional connections between the two, for the purpose of pursuing a strategy of rapid export-oriented industrialization. Differences in the way this critical juncture took place across these cases shaped important variations in institutional patterns of state-society relations. These differences, in turn, conditioned subsequent variation in the mode and type of political change in these countries.

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Peng, Jian Yuan, and 彭建源. "The Comparative Analysis of Economic Policy of Government and Economics of Development in Taiwan,Hong Kong and Singapore." Thesis, 1997. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01072779635705543167.

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Huang, Bo-hao, and 黃柏皓. "The Causal Relationship Between Financial Development and Economic Growth－The Case of Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea and Japan." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58733212259511716890.

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逢甲大學
合作經濟學所
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Financial development precedes economic growth or economic growth precedes financial development ? Many studies have been devoted test this issue. Empirical tests of this issue have yielded different results: (1)the financial-led economic growth, (2)the economic-driven financial development, (3)the bidirectional causality between financial development and economic growth, and(4)there is no causality relationship between financial development and economic growth in Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, and Japan from 1991 to2009.The traditional Granger causality test and Panel Granger no-causality test is used to test this issue. The results from traditional Granger causality test and Panel Granger no-causality test suggest bidirectional causality between financial development and economic growth in Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, and Japan.

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Larson, Lee. "A comparative analysis of the economic development strategies of Hong Kong and Singapore in the face of global and political change." 2002. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/larson%5Flee%5Fc%5F200205%5Fma.

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Wentzel, Martha Susanna Isabella. "A comparative study of investment incentives available to the manufacturing sector in South Africa, Malaysia and Singapore." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4766.

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This study identifies additional investment incentives, applicable to the manufacturing sector, which the South African government could introduce to encourage investors to choose the South African manufacturing sector as a desired investment destination. A comparison is made between the relevant investment incentives provided to manufacturing companies by Malaysia and Singapore and those provided by South Africa, in order to examine the similarities and differences between these incentives. In the light of these findings, recommendations are made for revised or additional investment incentives in South Africa to promote investment in South African manufacturing companies and reduce some of the barriers that prevent local and foreign investment in South Africa.
Accounting
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