Government of Singapore Investment Corporation: Insurer of Last Resort and Bulwark of Nation-State Legitimacy.

The global financial crisis has shattered many illusions, one of which being that sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are properly treated as arms-length investment institutions subject only to global standards of good governance. In fact, in a number of East Asian countries SWFs have acted as 'insur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Clark, G, Monk, A
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: School of Geography and Environment (University of Oxford) 2009