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Compares changes in the competitive position of six Dynamic Asian Economies (DAEs) – Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong – exporting to the USA, Japan and the European Union (EU) between 1983 and 1995. Dynamic shift‐share methods are applied to two digit data for the top five manufactured exports to the USA and the EU, and the top four in the case of Japan. Findings emphasise the magnitude of the structural transformation which occurred over this period as the emerging DAEs such as Malaysia and Thailand became more competitive across a broad range of manufactured goods relative to the older DAEs, while the latter endeavoured to switch into higher value‐added manufacturing and services or new markets, or to establish manufacturing facilities overseas as a substitute for exports.

On January 1, 1995 the OECD decided to stop classifying Singapore as a developing country and reclassified it along with Brunei, the Bahamas, Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates as a "more advanced developing country". Two questions are addressed in this paper: 1. Why is it so hard to classify Singapore in the development spectrum? 2. Does Singapore have any special problems which preclude it from joining the ranks of the developed world? (DSE/DÜI)

Fiji TV has behaved in the fashion of most commercial broadcasters: it has sought popular programming, and it has built a respected independent news bulletin. But politicians want news that is Government public relations and "worthy" programming.

Investigates the time series relationship between export earnings
instability and instability in receipts from international tourism for
Singapore between 1972 and 1988. Computes four standardized instability
indexes for both merchandize exports and international travel receipts,
having suitably adjusted the official export series for re‐exports and
corrected the two data series for trend. There is some support for the
view that export receipts are more unstable than tourism receipts.
Although exports are generally more unstable over the whole period, they
were relatively more unstable in the early to mid‐1970s during a period
of international instability. Tourism receipts, on the other hand, were
relatively more unstable in the 1980s, partly as a result of world
recession, but also because of structural problems in the tourism
industry in Singapore. Also finds that the development of the tourism
sector in Singapore has exerted a net destabilizing effect on total
exports of goods and services.