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This book collection of 45 chapters draws on the diverse insights of the Post Covid-19 challenges and opportunities to look ahead and across a broad range of issues – education, trade, governance, health, labour, technology to name a few – and consider where the balance of risk and opportunity may come out. It offers decision-makers a comprehensive picture of expected long term changes, and inspiration to leverage the opportunities this crisis offers to improve the state of the world. Academicians must find and establish a new equilibrium and a new normal for learning amidst the present challenges.

This e-ISBN collection of 34 chapters draws on the diverse insights of the opportunities and emerging challenges, changes in the smart technologies and artificial intelligence{AI} paving path towards interdisciplinary research in the fields of Engineering, Arts, Humanities, Commerce, Economics, Social Sciences, Law and Management. It offers decision-makers a comprehensive picture of the impact of Smart technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) expected in the long-term changes, and inspiration to leverage the opportunities that offer to improve the state of education. Academicians must find and establish a new equilibrium and a new normal for learning amid the present challenges.

This book reflects the various dimensions of play. It gathers together experience with role-play, tabletop, and online games and develops and assesses tools. It also reflects the human condition in this world of games as it becomes a digital world. We are living in a World of Games where every game is a world through which we learn about the world. A World of Games is fun and engaging, but it also provides deceptive pleasures. What may seem like fun is far from harmless. And then there are the many ways of learning in the mode of play.

The six volumes of Peterson's Annual Guides to Graduate Study, the only annually updated reference work of its kind, provide wide-ranging information on the graduate and professional programs offered by accredited colleges and universities in the United States and U.S. territories and those in Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Africa that are accredited by U.S. accrediting bodies. Books 2 through 6 are divided into sections that contain one or more directories devoted to individual programs in a particular field. Book 2 contains more than 12,500 programs of study in 152 disciplines of the humanities, arts, and social sciences.

This book is an annual effort by the economists from the Nanyang Technological University to provide analysis, interpretations and insights on contemporary economic issues affecting Singapore. In 2010, Singapore's economy was just recovering from the sharp economic downturn in 2008/09 caused by the Global Financial Crisis. The global economic outlook in the short and medium term remained uncertain and the risk of another economic or financial crisis remains high. Thus, one of the key themes of this book is to study economic crises and financial crises, and the policy measures that are available to manage them. Looking ahead, in order to ensure long term growth and prosperity for Singapore's economy, microeconomic policy adjustments and fine-tuning is still needed to build a competitive and resilient nation. Therefore, the second key theme of the book is to review several public policies in Singapore, such as competition, healthcare, training, free trade agreements, state capitalism and inequality. Contents:Economic Crisis Management:The National Wages Council (NWC) and Macroeconomic Management in Singapore (LIM Chong Yah)Unpreparedness in the Great Recession (LIM Chong Yah & SNG Hui Ying)Why are Financial Crises so Costly? (TAN Kim Heng)A Case for Selective Capital Control (LIM Chong Yah & Sarah CHAN)Public Policies and Other Economic Issues:Competition Policy and Law in Singapore (LAM Chuan Leong)Healthcare: Containing Cost without Comprising Quality (Linda TAN Hui Min & CHEW Soon Beng)Economics of Training: Market Failure and Government Intervention (Rosalind CHEW)A Review of the US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (CHEE Yoke Heong & CHIA Wai Mun)State Capitalism in Singapore (SNG Hui Ying)Growth, Opportunity, and Inequality: Some Empirics from Singapore (HO Kong Weng)Are Fines Compatible with Building a Truly Fine Country? (Walter THESEIRA & TAN Di Song) Readership: Undergraduates in economics & political science, policy-makers and general public. Keywords:Singapore Economy;Crisis Management;Financial Crisis;Policy Issues;Competitiveness;Healthcare;Training;Capital Control;Free-Trade Agreement;State Capitalism;InequalityKey Features:The book has a strong focus on economic/financial crises and the Singapore approach to crisis management, which is different from the standard policy toolsWe have authoritative authors writing several key chapters. Mr Lam Chuan Leong (Chairman of the Competition Commission of Singapore) wrote on Competition Law, Prof Lim Chong Yah (founding-chairman of NWC) wrote on the National Wages Council (a key institution in crisis management), and Prof Chew Soon Beng (renowned labor economist) wrote on trainingThe book has a wide coverage of public policy topics

This edited volume develops an understanding of the strategies, processes, issues and concerns involved when small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) go international with their local products/services and vice versa. It is a compendium of eighteen selected chapters on the subject, supported by an introductory chapter. The contributions are organized in four parts based on the sub-themes they deal with. The first part, containing the introductory chapter, provides different perspectives on transnational entrepreneurship, returnee entrepreneurship and their linkages with the internationalization process. The subsequent parts have chapters dealing with three sub-themes of the subject – the internal factors (individual and firm-level resources), the external factors (entrepreneurial ecosystem), and the process of organizational transformation and change, respectively, in the context of SME internationalization. Special issues and challenges being faced by SME entrepreneurs in emerging economies have been highlighted in this book, discussing key contemporary issues with regard to internationalization in the three dimensions outlined above. Further, the book explains how an entrepreneur can engineer the transformation of his/her organization into an international SME. This book is a very useful resource for entrepreneurs and policy-makers in general, and for academics and researchers in particular, as it provides an overview of the contemporary research in the critical areas of SME internationalization and transnational entrepreneurship by highlighting the linkages between them with special reference to emerging economies.