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Latest Singapore Economic Roadmap Marks Time

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Philip Bowring
Feb 15, 2017
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Anyone familiar with past economic Singapore plans for facing the future would recall how radical they could be. Then Finance Minister Goh Keng Swee in the early 1960s led with bold industrialisation plans centered on the Jurong area and on the late 1960s decision to allow foreign banks to set up the Asia Currency Unit (Asiadollar) accounts. Lee Hsien L…

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