Goh Keng Swee (6 October 1918 14 May 2010) was the second Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore between 1973 and 1984, and a Member of Parliament...
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A nation’s attainment of wealth has long been synonymous with industrialization. In the process of globalization, China, Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand and other East Asian countries have become the world’s fastest growing economies. The rest of the world now wants a foothold in these newly emerging c...
Keng Swee Goh
Kindle Edition
423
Marshall Cavendish Business
8
Born in Malacca in 1918, Dr Goh Keng Swee reached maturity at a time when European colonialism was breathing its last. By the time this keen-eyed Malayan Became self-governing Singapore's first Minister of Finance in 1959, he had made a name for himself s the colony's foremost social scientist, havi...
Kee Beng Ooi
Hardcover
332
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
9814311316
9789814311311
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The importance of fast economic growth in developing countries has been an undeniable fact since the early 1970s. Singapore, in its rise from a struggling colony to its present status as an economic success, offers a glimpse of the factors that contribute to the growth of a thriving economy. This bo...
Keng Swee Goh
Kindle Edition
262
Marshall Cavendish Business
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Dr. Goh Keng Swee's extensive career as a public servant was dynamic as well as distinguished, in many ways decisively instrumental in the making of the Republic of Singapore. This distinctive collection of essays attempts an assessment of the long-term influence and significance of Dr. Goh's major ...
Paperback
348
Wspc/Others
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Dr Goh Keng Swee was Singapore's first Minister for Finance from 1959 to 1965 who initiated Singapore's first industrial estate now known as Jurong Town. He was also the first and longest serving Defence Minister after Singapore became independent in 1965, responsible for building up the Singapore A...
Barry Desker
Hardcover
200
World Scientific Publishing Company
9814291382
9789814291385
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Touted as one of the main engineers of Singapore's economic growth, Dr Goh's collection of writings and speeches seek to shed light on the various challenges that China faced in the early 90s. His arguments and analyses were presented clearly and concisely while being firmly established upon economi...
Paperback
198
Wspc
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Dr. Goh Keng Swee?s public career spanned two eventful decades. He was a founding member of Singapore?s ruling political party, and played a significant role in creating and shaping the destiny of Singapore today. This is an anecdotal account of Dr Goh?s life-story told by the author, his daughter-i...
Tan Siok Sun
Paperback
228
Didier Millet,Csi
9789814260398
9789814260398
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Dr. Goh Keng Swee?s public career spanned two eventful decades. He was a founding and key member of Singapore?s ruling political party, and played a significant role in creating and shaping the destiny of Singapore today.
Tan Siok Sun
Hardcover
232
Didier Millet
9814155829
9789814155823
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