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Tremewan, Christopher C. "The political economy of social control in Singapore." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Political Science, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4612.
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Singapore is a highly controlled society. This thesis shows how the system of social control works as a whole. It does this by examining the details of social regulation in relation to political struggles, the phases of capital accumulation, and the alliance between the People's Action Party-state and foreign capital.
A theoretical consideration of social control critically examines traditions which have related economic strategies to political resistance and to the role of the state. This chapter acts as a resource to identify and address issues which emerge in the subsequent detailed study of Singapore.
The historical origins of current state repression are located in the British response to the anti-imperialist uprising in the post-war period. During the transition to political independence, the Lee Kuan Yew-faction of the People's Action Party built its alliance with foreign capital under the shelter of colonial-state violence.
A survey of theoretical approaches to Singapore's political economy favours an interpretation which sees local struggles as the driving force of change within the context of the latest phases of imperialism.
The greater part of the thesis concentrates on the concrete ways that social control has worked in Singapore since the PAP came to power. Major institutions are studied in depth: public housing, education, elections and parliament, and the law. Each highlights a major aspect of social control.
The system of state welfare provision through public housing and education stratifies society, forces people into wage labour and induces political loyalty. Parliamentarism and the forms of liberal democracy help to convert submission into consent. If consent is not forthcoming, then the coercive powers of the law and the military are applied.
The thesis concludes by showing how different political struggles were met by different forms of social control during the various stages of Singapore's economic development. The result is an overview of the way the whole system of social control works.
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Shaw, David. "Positioning Singapore in the global economy : a study of political and economic processes." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/4227.
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This study seeks to understand the significance of political decision-making and economic processes in the establishment of Singapore as an Asian 'economic miracle'. Throughout the study, illustrative passages drawn from three case studies conducted in different sectors of the economy - the port, banking and the biomedical sciences — are used to throw light on matters such as the contribution of statutory boards and government-linked companies, privatisation, the role of foreign MNCs and direct investment, and the challenges facing local start-up companies. Singapore's linkages with the outside world are put in context through exploration of a theoretical framework comprising globalisation, regionalism and the world city concept. The treatment of these is questioning as well as descriptive, and also includes a substantial literature review. The main body of the thesis investigates five main factors that, in the author's view, influence the nature of Singapore's integration in the global economy. The first, often glossed over, is the enduring vulnerability of the city-state, both in economic and security terms. Second are the various means of state control of and intervention in, the economy. Third is the actual interface of Singapore and the global economy, and the approaches taken to the opportunities and dangers involved. The fourth and fifth factors — the growth of a knowledge-based economy and a refreshed and more urgent programme of regionalisation - represent the latest efforts to re-make the economy in order that Singapore remains competitive in a changing world. Following the conclusions to be drawn from the research project, the final chapter is given over to discussion about the future, highlighting the need for changes of mindset on the part of both government and governed, and closing with a proposal regarding the future direction of world-city research.
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趙換兒 and Wun-yi Natalie Chiu. "Monetary and exchange rate policies in a small open economy: a case study of Singapore." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31211343.
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Ng, Raye. "Corporate culture in Singapore : Chinese capitalism, societal characteristics and political economy." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.539507.
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Tan, Penny Peng Leng. "Music education in the knowledge-based economy of Singapore : designing a music curriculum framework for neighbourhood secondary schools." University of Western Australia. Graduate School of Educationd%695 Electronic theses, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0240.
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Education in Singapore is seen as a key instrument to equip the next generation with resources to meet the needs of a Knowledge-Based Economy in a globalize world. The goal of this study is to develop a Music Education Curriculum Framework consistent with a Knowledge-Based Economy (KMCF) for Singapore neighborhood secondary schools. It provides the general context of music education in Singapore and conducts research to reveal the perspectives of key cross-sector stakeholders in music education, namely: The Ministry of Education (MOE) music and curriculum planning and development officers, National Institute of Education music academics, principals, general classroom music teachers and over 600 students. The curriculum framework will focus on the desirable qualities of Knowledge-Based Economy (KBE), particularly creativity, innovation, risk-taking, entrepreneurship and lifelong learning which have been strongly emphasized by the Singaporean government. In the light of their vision of thinking Schools, Learning Nation, the Ministry of Education is repositioning and reorienting the education system by implementing numerous initiatives and policies. The intention is to foster flexibility and diversity in a broad-based and holistic education, but the main focus to date has been on information technology, problem-solving and core subjects rather than on the creative aspects of the arts. By surveying students, this research aims to find out to what extent students find their music lessons satisfactory and whether their perspectives is compatible with those of other stakeholders. Students generally do not take music seriously, and the public perception is that a music career is limited to performing and teaching. The model curriculum framework will indicate further related careers, and the personal growth that comes through a genuine engagement with music. The Ministry of Education controls the school curriculum, structure of education, examinations, teacher qualifications and conditions of service. In 2005 it initiated a Teach Less, Learn More initiative which promoted student engagement. However, despite the rhetoric of classroom-based, teacher-owned and school-driven learning, it did not consult teachers or students and therefore failed as a vital learning organization which involved all participants in deciding future directions. For Senge (1994, p.13), a learning organization is a place where people are continually discovering how they create their reality. The curriculum design is an example of an example of an open system which this thesis addresses the issue of providing a structured programme flexible enough to adapt to contextual needs while providing the standards and outcomes needed in a competitive knowledge-based economy. This thesis makes its original contribution to knowledge by applying an open system model from organisational theory to a conventional music curriculum.
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Sikorski, D. J. "Public enterprise in international competition : The case of Singapore." Thesis, University of Bradford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.379813.
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Chan, Heng Kong Humanities & Social Sciences Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "PAP Singapore: a case study of stationary bandit in a market economy." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38649.
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This study investigates the role of the state in Singapore???s political economy. The conventional methodology in the neoclassical economics tradition is essentially apolitical and is thus inadequate to appraise the inner working mechanism of the Singapore polity, given the pervasive influence of politics in policy decisions. This study therefore synthesizes a new analytical methodology, drawn from neo-institutionalism, to analyse the interrelations of state, market and social institutions in the Singapore of the People???s Action Party (PAP). Ronald Coase???s theorem of transaction costs, Steven Cheung???s economics of property rights and Douglass North???s theories of institutions and institutional change, collectively, provide a theoretical framework that allows this study to examine the intrinsic nature and characteristics of the Singapore polity. Three major areas are investigated using this research paradigm. The first is the post-war political transition from colony to self-rule and the eventual emergence of an independent Singapore in the context of Cold War politics. The second is the process of social engineering through reconstitution, resettlement and socialization, a process that has aimed to alter the institutional environment that regulates the state and people and has tended to generate a submissive social ethos. The focus of the third is the redefining of property rights through nationalization, industrialisation, and privatisation that, in effect, has resulted in the extensive transfer of private wealth to the state. Four case studies are offered to demonstrate the impact of politics in the making of economic policy, the general effect of which has been to eradicate entrepreneurs in favour of state-owned entities. The analysis concludes that Singapore is essentially to be characterised as a predatory state, and adopts Mancur Olson???s ???stationary bandit??? theory to reconcile the state???s predatory behaviour with Singapore???s record of positive economic development. The study identifies nine unique features that have characterised the Singapore polity, the single most important feature being the emergence of ???Lee???s Law??? which amounts to the paramount Singapore informal rule in regulating all aspect of social exchange. It is paramount because without reference to this rule the inner working mechanism of Singapore???s political economy cannot be explicated. But the predominance of PAP control imposes a heavy social cost as it risks Singapore???s long-term viability as a national state because of the likely emergence of distributional collusion and institutional sclerosis. Singapore???s long-term viability is therefore contingent upon the kind of political reformation that would reinstitute a low transaction cost mediation mechanism that would then facilitate incremental institutional change.
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Wijeysingha, Vincent ReneÌ. "A political economy of state social policies in Singapore, 1959 to 1997." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246914.
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Lee, Tong Nge. "The internationalization of Singapore universities in a globalised economy : a documentary analysis." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/27814.
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This study traces the internationalization of Singapore universities from a historical and developmental perspective. The main Research Question is: “Why and how have Singapore universities internationalized since the beginning of nationhood in the early 1960’s to the globalized economy of today?” It seeks an in-depth understanding of (a) the meanings of internationalization, (b) the rationales for it; and (c) the approaches to it - from the Singapore government’s and universities’ perspectives. The study is located within the interpretative paradigm with a qualitative research approach using documentary analysis as the sole data collection method. The focus is on the three publicly-funded universities, namely NUS, NTU and SMU in Singapore. Being publicly-funded, the rationales for internationalising and the strategies used are more likely to be influenced by governmental policies and direction. Relevant sources examined include published government and university documents available from university libraries, web-sites and government archival records. Among the key findings are - that the internationalization of Singapore universities is inevitable given 21st century globalization and knowledge-based economies; and the government’s tight instrumental interdependence between education and economic development. The term ‘internationalization’ of universities is interpreted as ‘going global’ by the government; and ‘to be a global university’ by the three case universities. Singapore‘s universities are used as key ‘instruments’ to foster and attract talent, both local and foreign – to overcome a scarcity of skilled labour. Hence, the ‘internationalization’ of Singapore universities aims to – produce ‘world ready’ graduates, enhance ‘global competitiveness’, and talent augmentation (attracting foreign talent). Some of the Internationalization strategies adopted by the government and universities are unique. Two analytical models of internationalization of universities are developed from the study as its theoretical contribution.
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Chiu, Wun-yi Natalie. "Monetary and exchange rate policies in a small open economy : a case study of Singapore /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13671406.
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Mesher, Gene Michael. "The political economy of telecommunications in Malaysia and Singapore a stakeholders-structure, conduct, performance comparative analysis /." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/44047336.html.
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Hui, Lai-hang, and 許禮亨. "Political economy and public health governance: a comparative study of Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwanfrom the 19th century to 2000s." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47299551.
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This dissertation seeks to understand the relationships between the evolving political economies and
modes of public health governance in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan from the 19th century to
nowadays. It is argued that from a political economy perspective, a suitable institutional set-up is
important in providing political resources necessary for the evolution of public health governance.
This dissertation looks specifically at political resources that include authority, legitimacy, finance
and knowledge. The uneven distribution of these political resources across the polity determines the
power gradient amongst different actors. Institutional set-up is also important because it governs the
interaction between different actors who are in various ways dependent upon one another.
From the 19th century, the polity of these three jurisdictions experienced drastic change under the
banner of colonialism. The colonial governments were preoccupied with advancement of colonial
interest. With the unrest in the polity, the colonial governments realised the importance of authority
and knowledge in perpetuating their existence. At the same time however, the ignorance towards
cultural affinity of colonial subject deprived the governments of their ability to regulate the life of the
latter. The contradiction was strongly reflected in the two British colonies where there were clashes
over the application of public health law and regulation. Japan, by contrast, was more able to garner
authority because of her tactics to couple traditional control with modern policing.
In the post-war era, the political economy of these three jurisdictions departed from one another. In
Hong Kong, the colonial set-up shifts from regulatory-led to developmental-led institutional set-up.
Similar tendency can be observed in Singapore and continued after her independence. Bureaucratic
authority became the most available resources for government to mobilise. In strong possession of
authority and finance, the government was increasingly able to introduce expansionary measures.
This is accompanied by the rise of rational planning in Hong Kong and Singapore. As a result, there
witnessed bureaucratisation of public health governance which shaped the dependent interactions
between the authorities and citizen and the sporadic contribution from charities and overseas
organisations.
Taiwan departed significantly from these two jurisdictions. The inception of Kuomintang’s
authoritarian regime attempted to continue the regulatory-led institutional set-up from the colonial
regime in the 1950s. Whilst authority became abundant, financial resources were drained away to
military project. International agents became the key actor to contribute to the functioning of public
health governance.
In the 1970s to 1990s, the fiscal crisis arising from exponential increase of public expenditure and the
international policy discourse of deregulation led to the declining ability of tax-based direct provision
of health care. There displayed a greater willingness to rely on more actors and more instruments to
divest the responsibility of the government. However the negligence about the potential trade-off
between authority and finance limited the dynamics of coordination between different actors.
The sudden outbreak of the SARS episode in 2003 unveiled the problem of underinstitutionalisation
of polity. It unsettled the role of power and authority of government as demonstrated in Singapore
and unleashed the latent power of civil society in the arena of public health as seen in Hong Kong
and Taiwan. It also illuminated the role of knowledge in dealing with uncertainty in an institutional
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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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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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Koh, Bee Kim. "Coming into Intelligibility: Decolonizing Singapore Art, Practice and Curriculum in Post-colonial Globalization." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397669338.
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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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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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Wong, Hon Lung. "Population and economic development in Singapore." Thesis, University of Macau, 1991. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1636959.
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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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Song, Yang. "THREE ESSAYS ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN SINGAPORE." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/402821.
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EconomicsPh.D.
This dissertation is a collection of three relatively independent essays on economic growth in Singapore. In the first chapter, I construct a low-frequency macroeconometric model to investigate the association between eight key macroeconomic variables, consisting of FDI net inflows, gross fixed capital formation, openness to trade, labor compensation, unit labor costs, domestic credit to private sector, real interest rate, and capital stock, and a variety of relevant macroeconomic variables in Singapore for the period 1980-2009. The model contains two submodels: a multivariate autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model and an enhanced first-order autoregressive distributed lag (ADL) model. My results are broadly consistent with evidence from previous empirical studies, and have important policy implications for characterizing Singapore’s medium- and long-term growth path. The second chapter re-estimates the contributions of various inputs to Singapore’s output growth for the period 1980-2009. To address the impact of quality-adjusted human capital and time-varying factor shares on these contributions, I extend the translog production function approach developed by Jorgenson et al. (1987) by incorporating human-capital-adjusted labor and the assumption of time-varying shares of physical capital. The results show that a decline in capital deepening is partly offset by improvements in labor quality and procyclical productivity growth. They also imply that estimation of contributions of various inputs without considering quality-adjusted labor input is biased. In the third chapter, I measure the contemporaneous and one-period-lagged effects of the level of economic development, R&D spending, FDI net inflows, and infrastructure on innovation using a unique panel data set of 17 Group of Twenty (G20) countries and the European Union (EU) as a whole for the period 1996-2011. Additionally, I examine and compare the innovation trends in Singapore with the empirical results in different country groups of the G20 to explore the determinants of innovation in Singapore. This essay highlights the economic importance of R&D spending and infrastructure relative to that of FDI net inflows and the level of economic development addressed in traditional studies. It also implies that routinely pooling developed and developing countries can result in misleading conclusions and inappropriate policy recommendations. Besides relying on infrastructure to promote innovation, Singapore ought to apply R&D and technology spillovers to domestic enterprises more efficiently.
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Chang, T. C. (Tou-Chuang). "Local uniqueness in the global village : heritage tourism in Singapore." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=42000.
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It is commonly assumed that the development of tourist attractions, the formulation of tourism policies and the marketing of destination areas are dictated by the needs and interests of foreign visitors. What is ignored is the role that local factors and agencies bring to bear upon the process. This thesis is devoted to exploring the ways that local and non-local factors are responsible for shaping the form and function of tourism development. Drawing upon the case of Singapore, the thesis examines the country's heritage tourism phenomena as the outcome of 'local' and 'global' forces. This argument is elaborated along four lines of enquiry. They include a study of government policies on tourism, a look at entrepreneurs involved in heritage projects, an exploration of marketing and promotional strategies, and the examination of a particular urban landscape the Little India Historic District. To conceptualize the global-local nexus, the thesis adopts two bodies of theory. They are the 'locality concept' advanced by industrial geographers in the 1980s and writings on 'globalism-localism' by cultural/economic geographers in the 1990s. Both theoretical discussions reinforce the argument that place uniqueness is not necessarily sacrificed as a result of globalization. They also provide a way of viewing tourism geographies as the product of global and local forces.
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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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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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Koh, Ernest Wee Song. "Singapore stories - language and class in Singapore : an investigation into the socio-economic implications of English literacy as a life chance among the Chinese of Singapore from 1945 to 2000." University of Western Australia. Asian Studies Discipline Group, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0196.
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This thesis is an investigation into the socio-economic effects of English literacy among the Chinese of Singapore between 1945 and 2000. Through the use of oral history, statistical evidence, and existing secondary literature on the conditions of everyday life in Singapore, it explores how English literacy as a life chance has played a key role in shaping the class structures that exist among the Chinese in Singapore today. Adopting a 'perspective from below', this study provides a historical account that surveys the experiences of everyday life in Singapore through the stories of everyday life. It seeks to present an account that more accurately reflects the nation's nuanced past through defining eras in Singapore's post-war history 'Singapore Stories' in the plural, as opposed to the singular. Viewing the impact of English literacy through the prism of Max Weber's concept of life chances allows an examination of the opportunities in the lives of the interviewees cited within by distinguishing between negotiated and corralled life chances. The overarching argument made by this study is that in the later stages of Singapore's postwar history and development, English literacy was a critical factor that allowed individuals to negotiate key opportunities in life, thus increasing the likelihood of socioeconomic mobility. For those without English literacy, the range of possibilities in life became increasingly restricted, corralling individuals into a less affluent economic state. While acknowledging the significance of structural forces, and in particular the shaping influence of industrialisation, economic policy, and social engineering, this study also demonstrates how regarding the Singapore Chinese as possessing a variety of distinguishing social and economic characteristics, all of which serve to segment the community as an ethnic group, adds a new and critical dimension to our academic understanding of the nation's social past and present. By locating areas of resistance and the development of life strategies by an individual or household, this thesis illustrates how language, literacy, and class operated within the reality of undefined and multilayered historical spaces among the Chinese of Singapore.
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Li, Tania Joan Alexandra. "Cultural and economic change in the Singapore Malay community." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1987. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283652.
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Chye, Eleanor. "Love, money and power in the Singaporean household economy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340788.
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Chee, A. L. "Character education in Singapore : bridging economic discontinuities, maintaining political continuities." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10050296/.
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Character Education (CE) is an amorphous subject. It has been recontextualised in various forms, depending on the goals of particular programmes as well as the prevailing ideology. CE is therefore, by definition, political. Using Bernstein’s ‘pedagogic device’ as a conceptual tool, this thesis critically analyses how a neoliberal-developmental state (where a strong authoritarian State single-mindedly pursues economic development) recontextualises CE. The purpose of this study is twofold: first, to explore Singapore’s conception of CE and second, to investigate how CE has been differentiated in the mainstream and gifted education programme (GEP) in two Primary schools. It involves critically analysing how CE has been recontextualised by both the Ministry of Education (MOE) and the two Singapore schools. By framing my analysis around the complexity and multiplicity of factors involved when different pedagogic agents interpret, translate, recontextualise and enact CE as an education policy, the criteria for the prioritisation of knowledge/skills/values comes to the fore. Unlike other studies which adopt an a priori conception of CE, I have used a naturalist-interpretive approach and employed multiple data collection methods. These approaches and methods allow a triangulation of my empirical findings. In terms of policy, this study reveals that the MOE’s decision for mainstream CE to be taught in the Mother Tongue languages has resulted in the provision of two starkly different discourses being transmitted to mainstream and GEP students. The didactic and communitarian orientation of the mainstream CE curriculum coexist in direct contrast with the GEP curriculum which emphasizes student needs and individuality. Additionally, the untapped ‘relative autonomy’ in the two schools studied suggest a subliminal acceptance of State-defined good citizenry. I argue that CE and the values it promotes aim to socialise students into accepting the changing neoliberal economic realities, specifically the declining levels of social mobility and increasing levels of inequality. These findings raise questions about CE’s potential to impart critical thinking and to nurture strong and independent individuals, or at the very least, serve as a provocation to think and act in relation to a precarious future.
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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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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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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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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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Ng, Siew Kheng. "An insider perspective of lifelong learning in Singapore : beyond the economic perspective." Thesis, Durham University, 2006. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2697/.
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This study traces the learning journeys of a group of people who overcame economic, social and/or educational disadvantages to engage in lifelong learning in Singapore. Studies in a number of countries have shown that people from economically, socially and/or educationally disadvantaged backgrounds are under-represented in postschool learning. However, in every country, there is a small group that has succeeded in overcoming economic, social and psychological odds to engage in lifelong learning and in this thesis such a group will be investigated in Singapore. In 2002, twenty-three people within this category were selected by the community as lifelong learners in Singapore. Thirteen of them volunteered for this study. Data collected through in-depth interviews were analysed using grounded theory methodology. The model of lifelong learning derived from emergent common themes shows that while it is true that utilitarian reasons usually accounted for the initial decision to engage in post-school learning, learning journeys were sustained by the development of learning careers, through the strengthening of learner identities and the development of learning dispositions.Sociocultural factors, such as presence of positive environments and supportive relationships with significant others, also influenced learning decisions. The findings thus confirm recent studies of the need for a sociocultural theory of lifelong learning and a more holistic approach to lifelong learning. There are important implications for Singapore which has achieved rapid economic growth since independence by adopting a pragmatic approach. Official discourses of lifelong learning are based on human capital theory. Hence, lifelong learning is seen as an investment in human capital, and often equated with skills upgrading for economic and political survival. The implications of this study are, however, that instead of focusing on the political and economic aspects of lifelong learning, future initiatives should examine other micro-contexts like family, work, schools and other institutions, with special focus on how people within these institutions can help support lifelong learning. It is also evident from the findings, that lifelong learning should be seen in its whole spectrum, as learning across the lifespan, from cradle to grave (lifelong learning) and learning that covers formal, nonformal and informal learning (lifewide learning).VI
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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 économiqueCity-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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Tong, Ang Chin. "A study of organizational and professional commitment among nurses in Singapore." Thesis, City University London, 1991. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/7760/.
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Issues on commitment have captured the great interest of organizations and research scholars. The health-service organizations in Singapore are anxious to develop appropriate organizational strategies to enhance their nursing personnel's levels of commitment to the organization and profession, and hope that this may, in one way or other, help to ease the turnover among the nurses currently taking place in the organizations. The current study has, therefore, been carried out to investigate the commitment levels of nurses in the health-service organizations in the Asian Context of Singapore with an attempt to (a) establish the differences between the nurses' level of organizational commitment and professional commitment; (b) determine the effects of the nurses' personal variables on their organizational commitment; and (c) ascertain the relationships between the nurses's overall job satisfaction and their organizational commitment and professional commitment. A total of 2,424 usable questionnaires were collected from nurses in six government hospitals and four private hospitals. The results of the data analysis have indicated that (a) the nurses, irrespective of their organizational affiliation to the public or private sector, tended to show a higher level of commitment to the profession than to the organization; (b) the nurses in the private hospitals did not tend to show more commitment to the organization than their counterparts in the government hospitals; (c) the personal variables of age, tenure and salary level of the nurses in both the government and private hospitals seemed to have created an impact on their organizational commitment, and that of these variables, salary level seemed to have the greatest impact on the organizational commitment, and have an intervening effect on the relationships between age and tenure and the organizational commitment; and (d) the overall job satisfaction of the nurses in the government hospitals seemed to have been related more to their professional commitment than to their organizational commitment, but the overall job satisfaction of the nurses in the private hospitals did not appear to have significant relationships either with their organizational commitment or professional commitment. The possible contributing factors to these findings were analysed;the implications for the health-service and other organizations concerned, and the implications for future studies were discussed.
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Wisnu, Dinna. "Governing Social Security: economic crisis and reform in Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1179867530.
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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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Oshiro, Tetsuji. "Sub-regional economic integration : a comparison of Singapore-Johor-Riau and Hong Kong-Guangdong /." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19470411.
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Cheng, Yi'En. "Restructuring of education, youth, and citizenship : an ethnographic study of private higher education in contemporary Singapore." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d7ee615b-6d54-4ce5-a518-0f47d69e3c5a.
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In spite of widespread critiques about the neoliberalisation of higher education and its production of citizenship in relation to the market, transformation of students into profit-maximising individuals, and the vitalisation of a self-enterprising subjectivity, many of these claims remain under-examined with respect to cultural production. The objective of this research is to explore the neoliberal production of middle-class citizenship through the lens of educated non-elite local youth in Singapore. By combining geographical, sociological and anthropological insights about education and youth, I develop a theoretically informed ethnographic case study to examine how this segment of young people reproduce themselves as middle-class citizens. The research is based on eleven months of fieldwork at a local private institute of higher education, where I hanged around, talked to, and observed Singaporean young people between ages 18 and 25 studying for their first degree. The ethnographic materials are written up into four substantive papers, demonstrating the ways in which educated non-elite Singaporean youth in private higher education engage with state disseminated ideas around neoliberal accumulation and human capital formation. I argue that these students draw on class-based sensibilities and feelings to produce vibrant forms of normativities, subjectivities, and politics that pose a challenge to dominant assumptions of a "hollowed out" citizenship under neoliberalism. The research makes two overall interventions in geographic and social scientific writings about neoliberal restructuring of higher education and its implications for youth citizenship. First, it cautions against a straightforward claim that neoliberal technologies of control have extended market values into citizenship subjectivity and, with it, the erosion of progressive political projects. Second, it provides a much-needed analysis of middle-class citizenship formation among young people caught at the losing end of a diversifying educational landscape.
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Hajek, Patricia K. "Migrant workers in South-East Asia economic and social inequality in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore /." Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002152.
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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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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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Gog, Soon-Joo. "Education and economic (im)mobility of low-wage workers : the case of the security sector in Singapore." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2013. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020741/.
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The worsening income disparity in Singapore is threatening the legitimacy of the Developmental State. In the attempt to address the widening income gap, the government has prescribed "productivity enhancement and skills upgrading" as the primary means towards building an inclusive society. Against this backdrop, this case study examined the upward mobility of low-wage workers in the unarmed private security sector by interrogating the interactions among the state, employers, and workers. The study drew upon Bourdieu's Praxeological analysis to investigate the causal mechanism underlying their actions and rationale and the reasons embedded in their reciprocal relationships in their interpretation and facilitation of upward mobility of low-wage workers. The findings revealed the existence of institutional and circumstantial conditions that have impeded the upward mobility of lowwage employees in the security sector. These conditions reflect a deep set of culturally- and historically-constructed dispositions of a developmental state such as economic primacy, pro-business mindset and self-reliance. The very same attitudinal, institutional, and circumstantial factors that have contributed to Singapore's economic success have also led to the immobility of low-wage security workers. As shown in this study, the uncovering of the visible and the invisible forces that have impeded the upward mobility of low-wage workers highlights the need to explain the hidden predispositions embedded within the actors' interactions. Finally, the thesis argues that an multi-disciplinary macro-mesomicro integrated approach of analysing the relational positioning of actors can enhance the Praxeological analysis by providing a balanced, yet critical, evaluation of a socio-economic phenomenon leading to a practical course of actions to improve current practices.
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Ko, Ariel Hui-min. "Not for political domination : China's foreign economic policy towards Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia in the open era." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2235/.
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This thesis is an exploration of China’s bilateral foreign economic policy (FEP) towards Vietnam, Singapore, and Malaysia in the open era. It expects to answer the central question that what motivated China’s bilateral economic cooperation with small partners? Is it for political domination, or is it for national prosperity? Drawing upon the evidence from primary materials, this thesis challenges the hypothesis that China, as a rising economic power, intends to generate political gains from the creation of trade asymmetry of small partners. In contrast, this thesis argues that China’s bilateral economic cooperation with individual ASEAN members is for the pursuit of prosperity; in this process, the shared concerns of Beijing’s management of bilateral economic relations with individual ASEAN members are to raise the national income and to sharpen the national competitiveness in exports. In other words, Beijing’s FEP at bilateral level has the very strong implication for national economic development in general. Contrary to the realist expectations about foreign trade, this thesis shows that China did not take initiatives in bilateral economic cooperation to ensure the advantageous political gains; in addition, this thesis also finds that different political relations did not seem to affect the implementation of China’s bilateral FEP towards individual partners. By revealing China’s preference order of foreign economic cooperation at different levels, this thesis also argues that the calculations of welfare effects, rather than the consideration of relative gains, is more likely to be the determinant of China’s foreign economic behaviors.
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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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Tan, Lin Yeok. "An analysis of Singapore's dynamic comparative advantage, 1970-83." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.305163.
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Ho, Chin Ning. "Singapore's public and private transport modes : an economic comparison and policy implications." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/47764.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-133).
Frequently, public decisions on transportation are based on cost benefit analyses that do not take into account the costs that private individuals are eventually led to spend in order to use these systems, even though these expenditures are sizeable. For FY2006-2007 in Singapore, we estimate that more than 90% of the S$34.4 billion to S$34.9 billion spent on the private automobile system were borne by private individuals. In contrast, only about 65% of the S$1.66 billion spent on the public transport system were borne by private individuals. The inclusion of private expenditures shows that the private automobile transport system costs society at least 20.7 times as much as the public transport system, even though 64% of all morning peak hour trips were made with public transport in 2004. Excluding time costs, private automobile trips cost S$2.05 per passenger-kilometer, or 14 times as much as public transport trips, which cost S$0.143 per passenger-km. Applying derived economic and time cost functions to each trip from the 2004 home travel survey data, we compared trips made among each of the 82 postal sectors of Singapore, and found that the economic costs to society for private car driver trips far exceed those made with public transport for all of the 1,906 postal sector combinations analyzed. Although the time costs for private car driver trips were substantially lower than those of public transport trips for almost all of the origin-destination pairs, these were not sufficient to offset the far higher economic costs to society. We have highlighted particular zonal combinations for which differences in economic, time, and total costs between private car driver trips and public transport trips were very pronounced, as these promise the largest potential benefits to society if the differences between public and private modes were bridged.
(cont.) Therefore policies should be pursued to increase the share of variable automobile costs as a percentage of total costs. In parallel, other policy measures should include improvements of Rapid Transit System coverage specially along the corridors identified in this thesis, increases in road pricing, and actions to shift the burden of parking costs to private motorists.
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Ng, Kok Hoe. "The prospects for old-age income security in Hong Kong and Singapore." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2013. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/786/.
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Family support is the central pillar of old-age income security in Hong Kong and Singapore. But demographic ageing, among the fastest internationally, implies fewer adult children to provide support, while the public pension systems remain lean even by East Asian standards. Future elderly cohorts therefore face growing risks of financial hardship. This study examines the current extent of this problem, its prospects in the coming decades, and the possibilities of pension reform. It is unique in combining historical and prospective approaches towards policy causes and effects within a comparative framework. First, it analyses work, incomes, and living arrangements among elderly persons in 1995/1996 and 2005/2006 using microdata from national surveys. Next, it models possible living arrangements, income sources, and pension outcomes for future elderly cohorts using a macrosimulation model and illustrative cases. Finally, it examines the historical factors affecting pension policy development and assesses the potential for reform. Elderly poverty is more serious than often acknowledged—three quarters of elderly persons have incomes below 40% of the median wage, including a quarter of those in work in Singapore. Children‘s transfers are prevalent and large, while co-residence boosts elderly incomes on a household basis. But co-residence is already falling. By 2030, half of elderly persons may not live with their children. Almost a third may have access to neither market income nor children‘s contributions. Pensions are estimated to replace less than a third of men‘s final wage and are equivalent to a quarter or less of the median wage for women. Although developmental policy paradigms disfavour generous public pension systems in both places, explicit policy demands by the public keep up the pressure on policymakers in Hong Kong. In Singapore, reform prospects may depend on the growth of ideational competition and the availability of policy proposals to focus public concerns and rejuvenate policy thinking.
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Ferreira, Rui Alcino Morais. "Relações comerciais em contexto de crise : caso prático Portugal-Singapura." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/1769.
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Mestrado em EconomiaEste relatório de estágio pretende mostrar, a importância das relações comerciais em contexto de crise económica, com destaque para as relações comerciais entre Portugal e Singapura e à importância que o mercado asiático representa, neste caso, Singapura como uma plataforma para toda a Ásia. São focados aspectos no presente relatório, sobre as situações que ambas as economias vivem, sendo dado grande relevância à história de Singapura, e o caminho que seguiu pós-independência, liderado por Lee Kuan Yew (o “pai” da Singapura moderna) e as suas políticas que tornaram Singapura num hub, um “sucesso económico”. ABSTRACT: This report intends to demonstrate the importance of trade in economic crisis, with emphasis on trade relations between Portugal and Singapore, and the importance that the Asian market represents, in this case, Singapore as a platform for all Asia. The present report is focused on the situations that both economies are living, giving great importance to the history of Singapore, and the path followed after independence, led by Lee Kuan Yew (the “father” of modern Singapore) and its policies that made Singapore a hub, an “economic success”.
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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 institutionsMaster of Design (Hons)
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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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