Challenges Of Global Economic Competition: The Singapore Response
Singapore attained internal self-government as a British colony in 1959, inheriting severe economic, social and political problems. The government's strategic response was to launch an industrialisation programme to attract manufacturing industries to Singapore. The first industrialisation s...
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| Language: | English |
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Asian Academy of Management (AAM)
1996
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/35313/1/1-2-7.pdf |
| Summary: | Singapore attained internal self-government as a British colony in 1959, inheriting severe
economic, social and political problems. The government's strategic response was to launch
an industrialisation programme to attract manufacturing industries to Singapore. The first
industrialisation strategy emphasized import-substitution, in expectation that the then
proposed Malaysian common market would materialise. |
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