Assessing Export Platforms: The Case of Singapore

• Main Authors: HO, Kong Weng, HOON, Hian Teck
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2000
• Subjects: Export promoting strategy; government policy; Singapore; Asian Studies; Growth and Development; Public Economics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1757; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2756/viewcontent/Assessing_Export_Platforms_The_Case_of_Singapore.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The aim of this paper is to try to understand how Singapore was generally successful in its export promoting strategy. Historically, Singapore experimented with an import-substituting strategy in the first half of the sixties in anticipation of forming a common market with Malaysia and also briefly after its independence in 1965. The level of protection, however, was relatively low during its import-substituting phase.