Singapore and Free Trade Agreements : Economic Relations with Japan and the United States /
As part of its trade policy, Singapore has recently embarked on what can broadly be termed "new regionalism". This is characterized by its new-found desire to enter into Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with the economic powerhouses (Japan and the United States in particular) as well as with a...
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Singapore :
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies,
2001.
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- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- About the Authors
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- 2 REASONS BEHIND SINGAPORE'S ATTRACTION TO FTAs
- Importance of Singapore's FTA proposals with Japan and the United States
- 3 MERCHANDISE TRADE LINKAGES
- Trade Flows
- Trade Balances
- Trade Intensity Indices
- Commodity Composition of Merchandise Trade
- Intra-Industry Trade (IIT)
- 4 IMPACT OF CHANGES IN FOREIGN DEMAND ON THE SINGAPORE ECONOMY
- Export Demand Functions
- Significance of Foreign Exports to Aggregate Demand in Singapore
- 5 TRADE IN SERVICES AND DIRECT INVESTMENT.
- Strategies to Develop Singapore into an International Services Hub
- Singapore-United States Co-operation in Services
- Singapore-Japan Co-operation in Services
- Singapore's Investment Linkages with the United States and Japan
- 6 SINGAPORE AND THE NEW REGIONALISM: CAUTIONARY NOTES
- 7 CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX 1: TRADE INTENSITY INDICES
- APPENDIX 2: MEASURES OF INTRA-INDUSTRY TRADE (IIT)
- Notes
- References
- Index
- List of Tables
- 1.1 Singapore: Major Macroeconomic Indicators 1970-99
- 1.2 Growth Performance of Singapore and Other East Asian Economies.
- 3.1 Singapore's Domestic Exports to the United States and Japan, 1984-99
- 3.2 Singapore's Leading Product Groups of Exports to the World, the United States, and Japan in 1999
- 3.3 Singapore's Leading Product Groups of Imports from the World, the United States, and Japan in 1999
- 3.4 Singapore's Intra-Industry Trade with the United States and Japan: 1995-99 (Computed with Total Export Values)
- 3.5 Singapore's Intra-Industry Trade with the United States and Japan: 1995-99 (Computed with Domestic Export Values)
- 4.1 Variable Description
- 4.2 ADF Unit-Root Test.
- 4.3 Export Function Model
- 4.4 Export Function Model (For Singapore
- Japan)
- 4.5 Co-integration Test
- 4.6 OLS Test on the Error Correction Model
- 5.1 Singapore: Inward Stock of Foreign Direct Equity Investment by Country
- 5.2 Singapore's Investment Commitments in Manufacturing by the United States and Japan
- 5.3 Singapore: Stock of Foreign Direct Equity Investment Abroad by Country
- List of Figures
- 3.1 Singapore's Merchandise Trade with the United States
- 3.2 Singapore's Merchandise Trade with the Japan
- 3.3 Singapore's Merchandise Exports to the United States and Japan.
- 3.4 Singapore's Merchandise Imports from the United States and Japan
- 3.5 Singapore's Merchandise Trade Intensities with the United States and Japan
- 3.6 United States' and Japan's Merchandise Trade Intensities with Singapore
- 5.1 Services Investment Commitments by Region (1999)
- 5.2 Services Investment Commitments by Cluster (1999).