Report identifying factors influencing productivity in the manufacturing industrial sector of Japan - outlines economic growth, heavy industry, light industry and service sector trends in output and employment during the 1960s and 1970s, considers changing patterns of demand, competitiveness, industrial policies and social value systems affecting productivity, and includes productivity policy recommendations. References and statistical tables.

A study which challenges the dominant understanding of Singapore as a case where "correct" policies have made rapid industrialization possible and which raises questions about the possibility and appropriateness of its emulation.

Integrated report on comparison of factors influencing productivity in the manufacturing industrial sectors of Asian countries - compares productivity policies, definitions, measurement of gross domestic product, labour productivity, capital inputs, etc., Identifies management, labour force, resources, social value systems and other factors capable of helping or hindering productivity, and considers action points and strategies for the 1980s in view of overall economic policies. References and statistical tables.

First published in 1999, this volume explores extreme openness of the Singaporean economy to international trade through the role of Foreign Direct Investment in Singapore and Singapore’s investments abroad. It provides much valuable insight to how changes in the economic and policy environments impacted on the individual Singapore-based firms and their decision making processes. The book is particularly strong in the manner in which the firm level material is linked to the overall outflow of capital, the macro-level conditions and the established theoretical explanations for the export of capital. Samuel Bassey Okposin has four aims: to examine the causes of direct investment in Singapore’s economy, to investigate the motivation for Singapore firms to invest abroad, to explain overseas direct investment from Singapore and to examine Singapore’s overseas direct investment strategies, strengths and weaknesses, considering if the current trend of outward direct investment will continue into the new millennium.

Conference report on productivity and labour productivity measurement with partic. Reference to Asia - discusses role of productivity in economic development and measurement at the enterprise level and national level, and in large and small scale industry; presents comparisons of productivity in several Asian countries; describes and compares measurement and data analysis methodologys. Graphs, references, statistical tables.