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Sunday, September 19, 2010 By Abhijit

The world’s biggest selling newspapers

The internet is said to be taking its toll on newspapers, but circulation is still healthy in highly wired countries like Japan and South Korea. Tokyo seems to be the newspaper capital, boasting the two most widely circulated newspapers in the world: Yomiuri Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun.

Tokyo has, in all, four of the 10 most widely circulated newspapers in the world. Two are published from London: the News of the World and the Sun. One is German: the Bild. Two are in China. And the other one is the Times of India.

So why aren't any American newspapers on the top 10 list? It can't be because of the internet. The internet is as widely used in Britain, Japan and South Korea as in America.

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: ananda bazar patrika, asahi shimbun, bild, britain, calcutta, chennai, china, circulation, daily mail, daily mirror, europe, hindu, hindustan times, india, japan, million, mondo newspapers, new delhi, new york times, news of the world, newspaper, pakistan, south korea, sun, thailand, times of india, usa today, wall street journal, yomiuri shimbun

Friday, July 23, 2010 By Abhijit

Gini coefficient: Income gap in Singapore and elsewhere

Singapore has the second highest income gap between the rich and the poor, as indicated by the Gini coefficient, among the 38 countries with very high human development, according to the 2009 United Nations Development Report. Only Hong Kong has a higher income gap. See the table on this web page. You can also build your own tables using various economic indicators by going to the statistics page and you can read the report here.

The UN report says: The Gini index lies between 0 and 100. A value of 0 represents absolute equality and 100 absolute inequality.

Singapore, according to the 2009 UN report, had a Gini coefficient of 42.5, exceeded only by Hong Kong (43.4) among the countries with very high human development.

Here we compare Singapore's Gini coefficient with the figures for the rest of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asean Nations (Asean) and other countries with which it has close links. The figure tends to be lower in European countries, as this chart shows. All the figures are from the UN report.

Filed Under: Singapore Tagged With: Asean, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, australia, Canada, china, development, gini coefficient, hong kong, human development index, income gap, india, Ireland, japan, malaysia, Norway, Philippines, poor, report, rich, south korea, thailand, united nations

Thursday, April 8, 2010 By Abhijit

Singapore lagged behind East Asia as a whole

The Singapore economy lagged behind East Asia as a whole at the end of last year. Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia all grew more than Singapore in the fourth quarter. And so, of course, did China. Only Hong Kong and the Philippines posted weaker growth. This chart is based on the World Bank report released this week.

Download the report from the World Bank to see how the Asian economies performed against one another in various ways. See how the Singapore foreign reserves, stock market and exports compare with the other Asian economies.

Filed Under: Singapore Tagged With: china, east asia, economy, growth, hong kong, indonesia, malaysia, Philippines, south korea, taiwan, thailand, world bank

Thursday, April 8, 2010 By Abhijit

Singapore compared with other Asian economies

Singapore suffered a bigger drop in exports than China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam during the recession. See the chart below based on the World Bank report released yesterday.

But the Singapore stock market rebounded more strongly than any other market in the region except Thailand, South Korea and Taiwan, according to the same report. This chart shows all four were back to nearly pre-crisis levels last month.

Hong Kong has bigger foreign reserves than Singapore, but look at China's growing giant pile.

Filed Under: Singapore Tagged With: asian, china, crisis, export, foreign reserves, hong kong, pacific, recession, singapore, south korea, stock market, taiwan, thailand, world bank

Thursday, January 14, 2010 By Abhijit

Unemployment in Singapore and elsewhere in Asia

Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and South Korea show the lowest unemployment rates among the Asian and Middle Eastern economies tracked by the International Labour Organization over the past year.

The figures in these charts are all taken from Country Data, December 2009, which you can download as a PDF from the ILO website. The IMF report presents data up to mid-December from each country's national force surveys. The data here is shown in graphic charts because there are too many columns to fit in a normal table.

Filed Under: Singapore, World Today Tagged With: 2009, asia, country data, ILO, international labour organization, malaysia, south korea, thailand, unemployment

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