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- This is a quarterly brief which aims to provide a quick pictorial summary of recent economic developments in the Singapore economy. RECENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS IN SINGAPORE 7 June 2017 Real Sector Real GDP Growth, y-o-y % Real GDP Growth, q-o-q saar % Index of Industrial Production, y-o-y % Non-oil Domestic Exports, y-o-y % Labour Market and Prices Unemployment Rate, sa, % (Average) CPI-All Items Inflation, y-o-y % Wage Growth, y-o-y % 2016 Q3 Q4 Full Year 1.2
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- This is a quarterly brief which aims to provide a quick pictorial summary of recent economic developments in the Singapore economy. RECENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS IN SINGAPORE 5 September 2017 2017 2016 Q3 Q4 Full Year Q1 Q2 Real Sector Real GDP Growth, y-o-y % Real GDP Growth, q-o-q saar % Index of Industrial Production, y-o-y % Non-oil Domestic Exports, y-o-y % Labour Market and Prices Unemployment Rate, sa, % (Average) CPI-All Items Inflation, y-o-y %
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- Sharing Some Perspectives on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Let me first bid you a warm welcome to Singapore. I was recently invited by the World Bank to be a member of the Growth Commission chaired by Professor Michael Spence. So today's topic "Sharing Some Perspectives on Growth" fits me like a glove. In offering my perspectives, I shall draw heavily on the experience of Singapore. 2 Forty years ago, soon after I started work in the Economic Planning Unit of the Finance Ministry, I was sent
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- This study was published as Special Feature B in the October 2019 Macroeconomic Review. Special Features 85 Special Feature B Mind the Gaps! Output Gaps for Monetary Policy and Financial Stability Assessments by Douglas Laxton1 Introduction It is critical to make a clear distinction between the concepts of output gaps that are relevant for monetary policy and those measures that are relevant for analysing financial stability. The policy relevance of this distinction
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- This is a quarterly brief which aims to provide a quick pictorial summary of recent economic developments in the Singapore economy. RECENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS IN SINGAPORE 6 December 2017 Real Sector Real GDP Growth, y-o-y % Real GDP Growth, q-o-q saar % Index of Industrial Production, y-o-y % Non-oil Domestic Exports, y-o-y % 2016 2017 Q4 Full Year Q1 Q2 Q3 2.9 12.3 11.8 2.7 2.0 2.5 - 2.0 3.7 8.5 2.8 15.0 2.9 2.2 8.5
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- Mr Peter Seah, Chairman, DBS Group Holdings, Mr Piyush Gupta, CEO, DBS Group Holdings, Ladies and Gentlemen, Introduction 1. Good morning to everyone. Thank you for inviting me to join you today. My heartiest congratulations to DBS on your 50th anniversary and for being the only Asian bank to win two awards on this very special occasion – the best digital bank and the best SME bank. This is something which I think all DBS staff would be very proud of and all of us are very proud of. 2. In
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- Managing Director de Rato, President Wolfensohn, fellow Governors, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen: INTRODUCTION 1 Welcome to the 2004 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group. It is indeed a great honor for Singapore and for me personally to be chairing these meetings. 2 On behalf of all the Governors, I would like to extend a warm welcome to the new Managing Director of the IMF, Mr. Rodrigo de Rato. We look forward to his leadership of the IMF. Together
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- Finance Ministers of ASEAN member states The ASEAN Secretary-General Ladies and Gentlemen 1 Let me first welcome all of you to Singapore for the 8th ASEAN Finance Ministers Meeting INTRODUCTION 2 In 1997, ASEAN was hit by its worst-ever economic crisis. The Asian Financial Crisis dealt a severe blow to all of us. One after another, our countries succumbed to the flight of capital and investors. Several economies were on the verge of collapse. Before we could fully recover from the Crisis, we
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- Consultation on requirements for listing, de-listing or trading of relevant products on an organised market. Response VIEW DOCUMENT Response to Consultation Paper on Draft Notice on Listing DeListing or Trading of Products for Approved Exchanges and Recognised Market Operators (847.4 KB) Consultation Paper VIEW DOCUMENT Consultation Paper on Draft Notice on Product Notification Regime (355.4 KB) Proposed Notice sets out the relevant scope, and ongoing and notification requirements relating to the
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- This study was published as Special Feature B in the October 2012 Macroeconomic Review. 84 Macroeconomic Review, October 2012 Special Feature B Self-Fulfilling Global Panics by Philippe Bacchetta and Eric van Wincoop1 Introduction The 2008 financial crisis saw a sharp drop in global asset prices and economic activity. For example, Chart 1 shows the decline in growth in the US and in other G20 countries during the so-called Great Recession. What is unusual