Singapore is traditionally known as a small economy with significant trading activities given its leading role as a container and air-hub in Southeast Asia. But, Singapore has also given effort to build up its manufacturing capacities and capabilities. Figure below shows the breakdown of Singapore’s exports in 2021. From the figure, it could be seen … More Analysis of different segments of Singapore’s exports
In popular folklore, it is common to know that China is the world’s factory since its accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001. This is true, but little is known about the manufacturing capacity of United States in recent times. Many in the world’s population has assumed United States to have declining manufacturing output. … More United States still have significant exports for the world.
I was wondering what drives the increase in inflation in year 2022 after there was a gradual re-opening of the global economy following the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking through some of the data available from a Google search reveals a correlation in the inflation rate in United Kingdom and Singapore as shown in the figure below. … More Correlation in inflation rate in UK and Singapore for Year 2022
Profits on antibiotics are generally lower compared to medicine for chronic diseases or cancer; thus, many large pharmaceutical companies have stopped their research and development programmes for new antibiotics. This trend comes with the emerging recognition that more microbial pathogens are developing resistance to existing antibiotics in use. So, where would the world find its … More Research on new antibiotics will increasingly be carried out in academic labs
Profits on antibiotics are generally lower compared to medicine for chronic diseases or cancer; thus, many large pharmaceutical companies have stopped their research and development programmes for new antibiotics. This trend comes with the emerging recognition that more microbial pathogens are developing resistance to existing antibiotics in use. So, where would the world find its … More Research on new antibiotics will increasingly be carried out in academic labs
Currently, direct charging of an electric vehicle is the only commercially available method for charging the vehicle. But, possibility exists in the use of replaceable power packs from existing network of petrol stations that provide the addon service of providing battery power packs for electric vehicles. Comparing the two different modes of providing electric charge … More Methods for powering an electric vehicle
City-wide network of electric charging stations is necessary for supporting the use of electric cars in a city. However, current debate in the implementation of supporting infrastructure for electric cars in a city rest on the funding model for creation of such a city-wide electric charging network. Specifically, should the utilities companies in a city … More Funding model for network of electric charging stations in a city
A short note that I found the World Bank data series on year on year container traffic data. The data is available for individual countries. The website is as follows: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IS.SHP.GOOD.TU Category: economics, Tags: container traffic, trade, transport economics,
Just a short note on my observations of the difficulty of obtaining year on year container traffic data of container ports around the world through the Internet. Specifically, I was trying to understand if there could be a reduction in container traffic at ports around the world, for example, after a restructuring of the world’s … More Difficulty in obtaining year on year container traffic data for trade around the world
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