No disagreement here on the mercantile nature of the origins, however, the
capital like the labor never really stays in Singapore thoughout its
history, it goes to Malaya and elsewhere ( I of course recognize the
political connection between the two until the mid-20th C), leaving the
non-British
Did the British distinguish between Malaysia and Singapore at the time
or was Singapore nothing more than the entrepot for the region.
Charles Jannuzi wrote:
I somehow doubt that all the non-British 19th
century immigrants that were attracted there
brought mostly capital. They brought labor
important
than considering Singapore itself as the entrepot although it is situated
as a major stop on the trade routes. Singapore's harbor in the earlier
period was not exactly a deep water one, but its island status focussed
activity. Kuala Lumpur despite its role as a site central to a variety
I would argue that due to the 19C. origin as a purely free(sic)-trade port
and its entrepot function, that Singapore has always been a city(-state)
based on capital rather than on labor (which is expolited elsewhere, but
contiguously). The economic geography literature on Asian metropoles would
--- Ann Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would argue that due to the 19C. origin as a
purely free(sic)-trade port
and its entrepot function, that Singapore has
always been a city(-state)
based on capital rather than on labor (which is
expolited elsewhere, but
contiguously). The economic
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30571] Re: Re: Singapore
One question: it's very common for one or two big cities in what we used to call underdeveloped countries to have significantly higher income and income growth than the rest of the country. So it might be a mistake to compare Singapore to (say
Singapore also has substantial government ownership of industry -
Government-linked companies, according to the WTO's March 2000 Trade
Policy Review of Singapore [sorry to quote such a source!], some of
which are the largest in Singapore ... account for around 25% of the
market capitalization
Phillips wrote:
This query was put to me by a colleague and former pen-l-er.
Anybody familiar enough with Singapore to suggest an answer for
this student?
Paul Phillips
Economics,
University of Manitoba
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Date sent: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:17
and former pen-l-er.
Anybody familiar enough with Singapore to suggest an answer for
this student?
Paul Phillips
Economics,
University of Manitoba
Professor Vorst,
I am particularly interested in the last part of your lecture
today, where you were comparing the economics of smaller
SINGAPORE TOPS RANKING IN NEW GLOBALIZATION INDEX
FROM A.T. KEARNEY AND FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE
Since which time, I notice, Singapore has produced two consecutive quarters of
'negative growth'. That's officially a recession, right? Any tenable
associations between these two data come to mind
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_janfeb_2001/gindexpressrelease.html
Hey, dismal scientists, what say you on this?
Michael Pugliese
SINGAPORE TOPS RANKING IN NEW GLOBALIZATION INDEX
FROM A.T. KEARNEY AND FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE
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Hey, dismal scientists, what say you on this?
Michael
for the ages.
Above all markets love the country of Singapore. There was a time a few
years ago when one heard this repeated so frequently that it became one of
the great media clichs of the age. Singapore was an economic miracle, a
land arisen from Third World to First in a handful of decades. Singapore
:4591] US-Singapore FTA to be negotiated
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I would be interested in any reactions to the following announcement of a
US-Singapore FTA
government. It has announced talks on free trade areas with Singapore,
ASEAN and Chile. It has yet to define its attitude towards the WTO. Yet it is
hard to see the Alliance's economic development policies survive if exposed to
uncontrolled international trade and investment. The past fifteen years
I would be interested in any reactions to the following announcement of a
US-Singapore FTA.
Singapore recently signed a FTA with New Zealand. Actually it was much more than
that - it covered tariffs, services, investment, government procurement,
TBT/SPS, intellectual property, disputes
been discussed at length on pen-l, so I won't go into it further.
Stick to Singapore (and Hong Kong, a different case, but one with a key
similarity that I'm emphasizing here).
It should be mentioned that there are several places in "immiserated" third
world countries that have done
(NB: I am not writing as an expert on Singapore.)
In reference to attacks on authoritarianism in Singapore, Anthony
D'Costa writes:If punishments are a deterrent to crime ... then is it
not a trade off? Punishment itself implies some authority structures,
whatever that may be, the state
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Subject: Singapore
The following item on the Clari news service may be of interest:
SINGAPORE (AP) -- Police seized documents Tuesday from an
American scholar who wrote a newspaper article criticizing
``intolerant'' regimes in Asia.
Christopher Lingle is being investigated for possible
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