Foreign Investment in Singapore : : Economic and Socio-Political Ramifications / / Lim Joo-Jock, Lim Yoon Lin, Corazon M. Siddayao.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Joo-Jock, Lim,; M. Siddayao, Corazon,; Yoon Lin, Lim,
• MitwirkendeR: Arumugam, Raja Segaran,; Joo-Jock, Lim,; Lin, Lim Yoon,; Siddayao, Corazon M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [1977]; ©1977
• Year of Publication: 1977
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 p.)

This study, in five parts, aims to throw more light on the social and political implications of foreign investment in Singapore. The first part investigates the reasons for foreign investors seeking out Singapore as a base for their operations and points to the significance of viewing this aspect of the problem in a broader regional, even global, social and political context. Part two consists largely of fieldwork material which support and augment the conclusions of the preceding part. Part Three is a case study of the important petroleum-refining industry, and highlights its role in Singapore's overall economic growth. The fourth, a field study of the perceptions held by one group of small local businessmen (the motor fuel retailers, toward the oil companies) suggests the importance of cultural factors in the understanding of the evolving situation which follows upon the large-scale influx of foreign investment. Concludes with a basically reflective paper on the wider social and political ramifications of foreign investment in Singapore.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Publications Review Committee -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND INDUSTRIALIZATION IN SINGAPORE: Adaptive Policies and Responses in an Internationally Competitive Situation -- PART II SOME MUTUAL VIEWS AND ATTITUDES : A Questionnaire Probe of Some Foreign Investors on the General In vestment Climate of Singapore -- PART II SOME MUTUAL VIEWS AND ATTITUDES: Preliminary Observations of Local Industry, Organized Labour and Foreign Invesment -- PART I II SINGAPORE 'S PETROLEUM SECTOR : A Case Study of the Country ' s Investment Growth -- PART IV THE MULTINATIONAL PETROLEUM COMPANIES AND THEIR RETAILERS IN SINGAPORE: A Potential Conflict Situation -- PART V SOME ASPECTS OF THE WIDER POLITICAL AND SOCIAL RAMIFICATIONS OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT* -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INSTITUTE OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN STDIES LIST OF PUBLICATIONS