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Malaysia: Selected Issues »
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Source: Malaysia : Selected Issues
Volume/Issue: 2015/59
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Asia and Pacific Dept
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 03 March 2015
ISBN: 9781498345767
Keywords: oil, energy, prices, gas
This Selected Issues paper examines the implications of lower crude oil prices on Malaysia's economy. Although Malaysia's net oil exports are now very small as a share of GDP, its gas exports are sizeable. The pape...

Chapter 5. Industrial Diversification in Korea: History in Search of Lessons »
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Source: Breaking the Oil Spell : The Gulf Falcons' Path to Diversification
Series: Books
Author(s): Reda Cherif , Fuad Hasanov , and Min Zhu
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 April 2016
ISBN: 9781513537863
Keywords: Export diversification, Nonoil sector, Oil exporting countries, Economic development, environment, development, oil, capital, industry, Gulf Falcons,
Koreans define their predicaments in terms of absences. One of the first absences they will lament is that of exportable natural resources, from which stemmed a path of industrialization squarely focused on...

Chapter 3. Going Beyond Comparative Advantage: How Singapore Did It »
Chapter
Source: Breaking the Oil Spell : The Gulf Falcons' Path to Diversification
Series: Books
Author(s): Reda Cherif , Fuad Hasanov , and Min Zhu
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 April 2016
ISBN: 9781513537863
Keywords: Export diversification, Nonoil sector, Oil exporting countries, Economic development, environment, development, oil, capital, industry, Gulf Falcons,
Singapore has been transformed economically, socially, and politically since independence in August 1965. The country’s industrial development strategy evolved from labor intensive in the 1960s, skill intens...