Beyond the "Global City" paradigm

Singapore Perspectives 2015: Choices

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 51-89

  Lim, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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3. Singapore's industrial policies during the first two decades of independence have been extensively discussed in many studies, including Pang, E. F., & Lim, L. (1986). Trade, Employment and Industrialisation in Singapore. Geneva: International Labour Office and Chia, S. Y. (1989). The Character and Progress of Industrialization. In K. S. Sandhu and P. Wheatley (Eds.), Management of Success: The Moulding of Modern Singapore (pp. 250-279). Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
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16. This is the same economic model that Singapore should also rebalance away from. See Lim, L. Y. C. (2010). Rebalancing in East Asia. In S. Claessens, S. Evenett and B. Hoekman (Eds.), Rebalancing the Global Economy: A Primer for Policymaking (pp. 32-35). London: Centre for Economic Policy-Making.
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