Last updated July 31st, 2023. Geography plays an important role in any country's success. From natural disaster risk to trade accessibility, location often defines a nation's growth potential. For example, landlocked nations are severely limited by their lack...
Why the Singapore Dollar is Undervalued
Last updated September 28th, 2024. Most Asian currencies, with the exception of a rare few, have gone through a period of depreciation over the past few years. The decline was broad-based with almost every currency in the region falling by at least 10% against the US...
Cheapest Places to Buy Real Estate in Asia
Last updated May 20th, 2024. We recently posted an article ranking the most expensive cities in Asia to buy real estate. Thus, a list of Asia's cheapest countries to buy property, along with the reasons for their low prices, makes a natural follow-up piece. Here's a...
Will These Countries be the Next Singapore?
Last updated June 18th, 2023. Singapore is often used as a prime example of how business-friendly policies can jumpstart a country's economic growth. Most of our readers are already familiar with Singapore's quick transformation from a malarial swamp into one...
Investing in Singapore Property: The Ultimate Guide
Last updated February 26th, 2025. Buying property in Singapore means making an investment in Southeast Asia’s de-facto financial center, and one of the world’s wealthiest nations. While the city is ranked among the world’s most expensive, Singapore’s real estate...
Singapore Best Country for Business? Not for Long
Update for 2023: As predicted, Singapore lost its first place spot to New Zealand soon after we published this article. You might be interested in reading our list of countries that could be the next Singapore. For the past decade, Singapore has led the world...
Why Weak GDP Growth in Singapore Will Continue
Last updated December 20th, 2019. Singapore's GDP growth is far weaker than economists hoped for, with some analysts blaming the nation's sluggish manufacturing sector along with an intensifying US-China trade war. Businesses are still trying to counteract this...
Singapore vs. Hong Kong: Battle of Asia’s Financial Hubs
Last updated April 7th, 2025. Asia's population exceeds four billion and will increasingly shape our entire planet. When it comes to Singapore verses Hong Kong, which of these cities is truly at the center of the world's largest continent? Not every country will...
Singapore Property Bubble: Will it Burst?
Last updated September 27th, 2019. Home prices in Southeast Asia's financial center have plummeted since the beginning of 2015. Analysts are now worried the Singapore property bubble might burst soon. Singapore's residential real estate market has...