Jeevan Vasagar

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Jeevan Vasagar



Average rating: 4.04 · 497 ratings · 47 reviews · 2 distinct worksSimilar authors
Lion City: Singapore and th...

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“Legislation introduced in 1967 cut taxes on the profits from exports from the headline rate of 40 per cent to 4 per cent.”
Jeevan Vasagar, Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia

“Singapore faces a future in which its labour force will shrink rapidly, squeezed by some of the world’s lowest birth rates and reduced immigration.”
Jeevan Vasagar, Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia

“Singapore’s first industrial estate, at Jurong in the west of the island, opened in 1963. The timing was fortuitous: Western companies were looking to move semiconductor assembly to lower-cost countries.”
Jeevan Vasagar, Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia

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