The economic growth of Singapore trade and development in the twentieth century
The first comprehensive overview of the economic development of Singapore, the leading commercial and financial centre in Southeast Asia.
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Cambridge ; New York
Cambridge University Press
1994.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Themes and beginnings. 1. Patterns in the economic development of Singapore, 1870-1990
- 2. Singapore in the late nineteenth century
- pt. 2. 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: boom and spread of a twentieth-century staple
- 7. Rubber, industrialization and the development of Chinese banking
- 8. Petroleum and tin: the twentieth-century boom commodity and a staple in decline
- 9. The distribution of manufactured imports
- pt. 3. Staple port and rapid growth, 1947-1990
- 10. The staple port resurgent: development to 1959
- 11. Markets, government and growth, 1960-1990
- 12. Conclusion.