Singapore Places its Bets

by Derek Da Cunha

Casinos, Foreign Talent and Remaking a City State. It focuses on Singapore's ambitious efforts to re-orient its economy to take on the challenges thrown up by the competitive pressures of globalisation and how it has had to "remake" itself with the advent of casinos.Spore's relatively liberal policy of allowing foreign nationals to live, study, work and take up permanent residency and citizenship will be scrutinised in terms of its impact on social cohesion and national identity.

315 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 12, 2012