deciding what type of urban area fits into this specific category. With a GDP of $2.8 billion and 100% urban development‚ Singapore is a city that is impossible to leave out on the list of what constitutes a metropolis.[i] The time they spent under British rule is what initially prompted the urbanization that led to the economic miracle we see today. They eventually became independent‚ and the government took extraordinary measures to ensure proper economic growth and modernization of their new city-state
Premium Economy Economic development Economic growth
to address this epidemic‚ voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) programs have been implemented in many of rural and remote areas. VCT serves as the gateway to HIV prevention‚ treatment‚ care and support by allowing people to learn their HIV status. According to World Health Organization (WHO)‚ knowledge of one’s HIV status benefits the individuals‚ community‚ and population through awareness and education.2 Therefore‚ there have been great efforts to expand VCT services since inception over 20 years
Premium HIV/AIDS HIV World Health Organization
The roles of oversight and voluntary systems in a safety management system By Jason W. Pack ASCI 202 Embry Riddle Aeronautical University December 15‚ 2012 Abstract Human error‚ bad weather and ineffective ground radar can all have serious consequences for airport safety‚ increasing the risk of an accident. New complementary airport safety systems currently under development promise to avoid such incidents in the future. New‚ more efficient and more accurate
Premium Safety Air safety
Literature Review Sociologist’s views: The role of voluntary organizations in society This information was sourced from www. Google.com. Some sociologists such as Blau and Scott(1974) and Etzioni(1975) classified many formal organizations as normative. A normative organization is one that people join in order to peruse goals that they consider personally worthwhile. They obtain personal satisfaction but no monetary reward for being in such an organization. In many instances‚ the person joins
Premium Sociology
Growth Model of Singapore Group 5 Yash Goradia Dhairya Kajaria Ankita Rathi Jaspreet Sandhu Sahil Sanghvi Shriraj Shetty
Premium Singapore Economic growth
LABOR LAWS OF SINGAPORE In Singapore‚ for employment to be valid there must be a contract that has been agreed upon between the employers and the employee/s. In principle‚ employer and employee could enter into contractual obligations without a written contract. According to Sharon Bernhardt‚ that Singapore is known for its thriving business economy as well according to the WEF Global Competitiveness Report‚ Singapore is the most competitive economy in Asia‚ ranking third in the world and following
Premium Employment Working time
e-Government: The Singapore Arun Mahizhnan & Narayanan Andiappan Arun Mahizhnan is Deputy Director‚ Institute of Policy Studies‚ Singapore and Narayanan Andiappan is Assistant Manger‚ Infocomm Development Authority‚ Singapore Government. This paper draws heavily from resource materials provided by IDA. The views expressed are in the authors’ personal capacity. ___________________________________________________________________________ Introduction The term "e-Government" is used in this paper
Premium Civil service Government Bureaucracy
According to the law statutory rape refers to having sexual relation with someone under the “age of consent.” People under the age of consent cannot legally agree to have sex‚ so having sex with them breaks the law. In most to all of the states they age of consent is usually 17‚ the rest is 18. However‚ if the couple are three years within each other and not younger than the age 14‚ then that wouldn’t be considered to be statutory rape. These laws were set into place to protect young people based
Premium Rape Sexual intercourse Human sexual behavior
PROBLEM GAMBLING IN SINGAPORE ------------ 1-2 2. THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS --------------------- 3-4 3.1. Possible Causes to Problem Gambling 3.2. Possible Ways of Treating Addiction 3. WIDESPREAD CONSEQUENCES OF PROBLEM GAMBLING ------------ 5-6 4.3. The Community 4.4. The Family Unit 4. SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS AND SERVICE PROVISIONS ----------------- 7-11 5.5. Establishment of NCPG 5.6. Establishment of Social Service Agencies and NAMS
Premium Problem gambling Addiction Sociology
Assessable income=ordinary income + statutory income. Ordinary income: income deriving from the courts (s6-5) Negative propositions: items that are not income by ordinary concepts: 1.Amounts not convertible into money :In Tennant v Smith (1892) free accommodation provided to a bank manager was held not to be ordinary income because building could not be sub-let and the benefit thereby converted to money. In FCT v Cooke & Sherden (1980) an incentive prize offered by a manufacturer was not income
Premium Taxation Tax Generally Accepted Accounting Principles