Singapore: Selected Issues

May 4, 2006

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Singapore: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2006) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper examines the behavior of savings and investment from an Asian and Singaporean perspective. It builds and estimates two econometric models that relate savings and investment to a range of macroeconomic and structural variables. The paper examines the relationship between labor market developments and private consumption behavior, and notes that employment uncertainty did have a significant negative impact on consumption and raised precautionary savings. It also examines quantitative, industry-level measures of the intensity of domestic competition in the manufacturing and services sectors during the past two decades in Singapore.

Subject: Consumption, Income, Labor, Labor markets, National accounts, Private consumption, Unemployment rate

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Consumption, CR, Global, Income, Investment, Investment rate, ISCR, Labor market uncertainty, Labor markets, P-AC markup, Private consumption, Products industry, Saving, Saving-investment balance, Singapore economy, Unemployment rate

Publication Details

Pages:

34
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2006/151
Stock No:

1SGPEA2006002
ISBN:

9781451834253
ISSN:

1934-7685

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