Independent Since The Development Of Singapore's Export-oriented Economy: Globalization And Regionalization Perspective

The successful policies to boost economic growth is usually to change with circumstances permit. The value of research lies in the discussion about different export-oriented economic policies in different countries. This thesis use the theory of economic globalization as guidance to discuss how Singapore government to put the intergrated design into practice with the background of globalization and regionalization, in the view of interdisciplinary with the science of history, economics and international relations. The thesis choose three correlative aspects of export-oriented economy, named foreign trade strategy, industrial development strategy and regionalization strategy of foreign investment. The body of the thesis is using datas of the economic development these decades in Singapore and the three aspects to analyze the macro-development process of Singapore. The focal point is Singapore's external economic relations through the changes of exerport-oriented economic policies based in globalization and regionalization. The discussion will place emphasis on Singapore's regionalization strategy. Meantime, the relation bewteen internationally economic integration and regionally economic integration are important issues.The purpose of the thesis is not short -term prediction about Singapore economy, but to research on long-term developmental tendence of Singapore's export-oriented policy. The leaders of independent Singapore know clearly about their weakness in regional and international economic politics. Therefore, they insist on free competition and against trade protectionism. They carry out the economic freedom to boost the balance between all kinds of economic powers and form economic centre of international and regional with the cooperation and competition between them.The results show that the export-orientde economic policy of Singapore is carried out around globalization and regionalization from the beginning to the end, in the view of 50-year developmental process of their export economy. The idea that develop economy based on globalization and regionalization is the cornerstone for intergration of Singapore's export-oriented policy. However, the effect of intergration of regionalization economy is changing and strong in one time and weak in other time under the effect between globalization and regionalization.In the process of the thesis, the focal point is not limited in specific policy of foreign trade, but on the regional model of Singapore' trade and the international-economic relation of Singapore. The thesis describes the change of Singapore from pushing the economic intergration of ASEAN to pursuing Bilateral Free Trade Agreements. It pays attention to the macro-policies which aim to promote business environment and discuss how to adjust industrial policy to adapt to the goals of globalization and regionalization when discussing the development of Singapore's industrial policy. On foreign investment, it explains how Singapore reach their regionalization goal through construct industrial park, thus to boost internationalization of domestic corporations. Considering innovation is an important aspect of globalization, this thesis makes reference to memoirs of Singapore elitists and apply a lot of their information on the development of export-oriented economy. I also make research combined with micro cases so that the thesis has value of innovation and enlightenment to a certain degree.