W. G. Huff, Huff W. G.

The Economic Growth of Singapore

Trade and Development in the Twentieth Century

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive overview of the economic development of Singapore, the leading commercial and financial centre in Southeast Asia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 904g
• ISBN-13: 9780521370370
• ISBN-10: 052137037X
• Artikelnr.: 21066515

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Themes and Beginnings: 1. Patterns in the economic development of Singapore, 1870-1990
2. Singapore in the late-nineteenth century
Part II. Development as a Staple Port, 1900-1939: 3. Trade, finance and development
4. Ocean-going shipping, the port and regional transport
5. Immigration, population and employment
6. Rubber: the twentieth-century innovation
7. Rubber, industrialisation and the development of Chinese banking
8. Petroleum and tin: the twentieth century boom commodity and a staple in decline
9. The trade in imported manufactures
Part III. Staple Port and Rapid Growth, 1947-1990: 10. The staple port resurgent: development to 1959
11. Markets, government and growth, 1960-1990
12. Conclusion.