Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-446) and index.
Part I. Themes and Beginnings: 1. Patterns in the economic development of Singapore, 1870-1990 ; 2. Singapore in the late-nineteenth century -- Part II. 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: the twentieth-century innovation ; 7. Rubber, industrialisation and the development of Chinese banking ; 8. Petroleum and tin: the twentieth century boom commodity and a staple in decline ; 9. The trade in imported manufactures -- Part III. Staple Port and Rapid Growth, 1947-1990: 10. The staple port resurgent: development to 1959 ; 11. Markets, government and growth, 1960-1990 ; 12. Conclusion.
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The first comprehensive overview of the economic development of Singapore, the leading commercial and financial centre in Southeast Asia.
Trade and development in the twentieth ecentury
Commerce.
Economic history.
Economic policy.
Emigration and immigration-- Economic aspects.
Strategic aspects of individual places.
Singapore, Commerce.
Singapore, Economic conditions.
Singapore, Economic policy.
Singapore, Emigration and immigration, Economic aspects.