Product Description: India is emerging as one of the economic giants of the world, and is gaining international influence and global leadership as the world's largest democracy. India's performance will have far-reaching consequences on whether the economic awakening of the country, which began more than two decades ago, can become a good model to be emulated by other developing economies...read more

Product Description: The literature is extant on the origins and evaluation of East Asian developmental states and some Southeast Asian ones, drawing differentiations and variations between the first- and second-generation developmental states. The common issue is that what had worked has become less effective as domestic and external conditions have changed, the latter as much influenced by globalisation, information communication technology, knowledge-based new economy and deregulation in the global economy...read more

Product Description: Interest in information technology and the media is growing apace. This book has been specially written to provide an economics framework for analysing the nature and scope, as well as issues, pertaining to the new information and communication technology and revolution...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Over the four decades of its existence, Singapore's Central Provident Fund (CPF) has evolved from a simple savings-withdrawal retirement plan into a complex scheme which reaches beyond mere social security provision to cater for the medical, educational and investment needs of the nation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The book examines how a small, open city-state, through market-supporting public policies, has enabled many economic and socio-political odds to be overcome. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: It is difficult for any one country to provide all the investment incentives to attract global companies. A ready supply of cheap labour, an excellent infrastructure and an abundant source of raw materials, for example, are not always available in the same place...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Singapore's quick recovery from the recent economic crisis is attributed to its strong public policies. Included in this selection of essays are various policy options to improve its competitive edge in the 21st century. These are the fruits of a collaborative, cross-disciplinary research initiative undertaken by the National University of Singapore under the Policy Research Program started in 1997...read more

Product Description: The Central Provident Fund (CPF), which used to work for Singapore as a distinctive national social security and welfare protection scheme, has come up against a myriad of challenges in a world more volatile, uncertain, disruptive and risky than it was at the time of its inception...read more