Publication Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

11-2011

Abstract

Singapore’s investment and long history of involvement in the oil industry has been a major factor in the development of its economy. In the 272-page book 'Singapore, The Energy Economy: From The First Refinery To The End Of Cheap Oil, 1960 to 2010' by Ng Weng Hoong, he traced the evolution of Singapore’s economy over a 50-year period beginning from 1960, showing how energy has been a powerful but little noticed thread in the country’s rise from a struggling Third World country to an affluent city-state it is today.

Disciplines

Asian Studies | Oil, Gas, and Mineral Law

Licece/Creative Commons Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Subject(s)

Basic or Discovery Scholarship

Additional URL

https://www.smu.edu.sg/perspectives/all

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