How Do Nations Increase Workforce Skills? Factors Influencing the Success of the Singapore Skills Development System

Global Business Review

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 11-47

  Kuruvilla, Sarosh ^a   Chua, Rodney ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Hewitt Associates   (Singapore)

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EID: 84993736008     PISSN: 09721509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/097215090000100102     Document Type: Article

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