productivity

Singapore economy

Singapore to enjoy stable and steady growth picture for 2018: OCBC

SINGAPORE (Dec 20): OCBC is projecting for Singapore’s full year gross domestic product (GDP) to grow by 2-4% in 2018 – a slightly more sanguine estimation compared to the anticipated 3.4% y-o-y growth for this year, amid the broadening domestic gr

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OCBC is top banking stock on cost efficiencies: UOB

SINGAPORE (Dec 14): UOB Kay Hian says Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) leads local banks in cost efficiency with the lowest staff cost per employee at $83,333 and lean other non-wage expenses.

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Prudential Singapore takes market share as innovation boosts productivity

(Nov 13): Last month’s launch of Prudential Singapore’s Fintegrate Partnership, which seeks to collaborate with fintech startups in Singapore and globally, and co-develop digital solutions for customers, is one of many steps that the long-standing ins

Singapore economy

How much is pain costing Singapore’s economy?

SINGAPORE (June 20): Pain conditions are costing Southeast Asian economies about US$44.6 billion ($61.9 billion) in productivity losses on an annual basis – out of which Singapore’s estimated productivity losses make up about US$6.2 billion per year,

Global Economy

Lost sleep is costing Japan's economy billions

TOKYO (Feb 16): Sleep deprivation is doing more harm in Japan than just making people grumpy and unhealthy. It is also holding back the world’s third-largest economy.

Startups, Entrepreneurs, Digital economy

Changi Airport partners EDB to launch $50 mil innovation programme

SINGAPORE (Jan 5): Changi Airport Group (CAG) has partnered the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) to launch a new $50 million programme with the aim of driving innovation for next-generation airport solutions over the next five years.

In print this week

Is it time for Singapore Inc to change?

SINGAPORE (Dec 23): More than five decades after Singapore first successfully adopted an export oriented economic model, it may be time for a change.

Payback time for the demographic dividend

SINGAPORE (Nov 15): The world's demographic is in the midst of unravelling as population growth is rapidly declining in the US, Europe, Japan, China and most of Asia, according to the latest data from DBS Group Research. 

Focus on increasing productivity, not manpower: DPM Tharman

SINGAPORE (Sept 29): Singapore is no stranger to disappointing gross domestic product (GDP) growth and alarming unemployment figures of late.
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