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As a result of this investment drive Singapore's capital stock increased 33 times by 1992 and achieved a tenfold increase in the capital-labour ratio. Living standards steadily rose with more families moving from a lower-income status to middle-income security with increased household incomes. The Gifted Education Programme (GEP) was set up by the Ministry of Education in 1984 to cater to the intellectually gifted students. This programme aims to develop gifted children to their top potential and it places a special emphasis on higher-order thinking and creative thought. There are currently 9 primary schools offering the Gifted Education Programme: Anglo-Chinese School Catholic High School Henry Park Primary School Nan Hua Primary School Nanyang Primary School Rosyth School Tao Nan School St Hilda's Primary School and Raffles Girls' Primary School the Secondary School Gifted Education Programme was discontinued at the end of 2008 as more students take the Integrated Programme (IP); this has been replaced by a "School-Based Gifted Education" programme, includes 650,000 Imperial Japanese Army Air Service. Senate 1 United States Citi 12.9 % Java has been traditionally dominated by an elite class while the people in the lower classes were often involved in agriculture and fishing The elite class in Java has evolved over the course of history as cultural wave after cultural wave immigrated to the island There is evidence that South Asian emigres were among this elite as well as Arabian and Persian immigrants during the Islamic eras More recently Chinese immigrants have also become part of the economic elite of Java Although politically the Chinese generally remain sidelined there are notable exceptions such as the former governor of Jakarta Basuki Tjahaja Purnama Though Java is increasingly becoming more modern and urban only 75% of the island has electricity Villages and their rice paddies are still a common sight Unlike the rest of Java the population growth in Central Java remains low Central Java however has a younger population than the national average the slow population growth can in part be attributed to the choice by many people to leave the more rural Central Java for better opportunities and higher incomes in the bigger cities. Java's population continues to rapidly increase despite many Javanese leaving the island This is somewhat due to the fact that Java is the business academic and cultural hub of Indonesia which attracts millions of non-Javanese people to its cities The population growth is most intense in the regions surrounding Jakarta and Bandung which is reflected through the demographic diversity in those areas. Beginning with New Zealand in 1990 central banks began adopting formal public inflation targets with the goal of making the outcomes if not the process of monetary policy more transparent In other words a central bank may have an inflation target of 2% for a given year and if inflation turns out to be 5% then the central bank will typically have to submit an explanation The Bank of England exemplifies both these trends It became independent of government through the Bank of England Act 1998 and adopted an inflation target of 2.5% RPI revised to 2% of CPI in 2003 the success of inflation targeting in the United Kingdom has been attributed to the Bank of England's focus on transparency the Bank of England has been a leader in producing innovative ways of communicating information to the public especially through its Inflation Report which have been emulated by many other central banks. See also: NEWater, The short-term effects of monetary policy can be influenced by the degree to which announcements of new policy are deemed credible in particular when an anti-inflation policy is announced by a central bank in the absence of credibility in the eyes of the public inflationary expectations will not drop and the short-run effect of the announcement and a subsequent sustained anti-inflation policy is likely to be a combination of somewhat lower inflation and higher unemployment (see Phillips curve#NAIRU and rational expectations) But if the policy announcement is deemed credible inflationary expectations will drop commensurately with the announced policy intent and inflation is likely to come down more quickly and without so much of a cost in terms of unemployment, Singapore consists of 63 islands including the main island Pulau Ujong. There are two-man-made connections to Johor Malaysia: the Woodlands 1st Link in the north and the Tuas 2nd Link in the west Jurong Island Pulau Tekong Pulau Ubin and Sentosa are the largest of Singapore's smaller islands The highest natural point is Bukit Timah Hill at 163.63 m (537 ft). Under British rule Christmas Island and the Cocos Islands were part of Singapore but were later transferred over to Australia in 1957. Pedra Branca an outlying island which now belongs to Singapore after the dispute is the nation's easternmost point. . 4 Germany Deutsche Bank 7.9% Military Medals of Honor (Japan) Begedil mashed potato mixture that is fried into patties and eaten together with mee soto. 3.3 Eldershield Putu mayam rice flour noodle served with sugar and coconut usually eaten for breakfast.

Singapore business directory Eventually Raffles settled on the island of Singapore because of its position at the southern tip of the Malay peninsula near the Straits of Malacca and its excellent natural harbor fresh water supplies and timber for repairing ships Most importantly it was unoccupied by the Dutch. 1.4 Amphibians From the beginning PISA has been designed with one particular method of data analysis in mind Since students work on different test booklets raw scores must be 'scaled' to allow meaningful comparisons Scores are thus scaled so that the OECD average in each domain (mathematics reading and science) is 500 and the standard deviation is 100. This is true only for the initial PISA cycle when the scale was first introduced though subsequent cycles are linked to the previous cycles through IRT scale linking methods. S$378.329 S$69,168 US$256.860 S$1.2671 5 Economy This section needs to be updated Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information (July 2013), Prince Aritomo Yamagata a field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army and twice Prime Minister of Japan He was one of the main architects of the military foundations of early modern Japan Yamagata Aritomo can be seen as the father of Japanese militarism, State-owned enterprises play a substantial role in Singapore's economy Sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings holds majority stakes in several of the nation's largest companies such as Singapore Airlines SingTel ST Engineering and MediaCorp The Singaporean economy is a major Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) outflow financier in the world Singapore has also benefited from the inward flow of FDI from global investors and institutions due to its highly attractive investment climate and a stable political environment.