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During the 15th century the Medici family were required to open banks at foreign locations in order to exchange currencies to act on behalf of textile merchants to facilitate trade the bank created the nostro (from Italian this translates to "ours") account book which contained two columned entries showing amounts of foreign and local currencies; information pertaining to the keeping of an account with a foreign bank. During the 17th (or 18th) century Amsterdam maintained an active Forex market in 1704 foreign exchange took place between agents acting in the interests of the Kingdom of England and the County of Holland. Aerial panorama of the Singapore Strait and the Pasir Panjang Port Terminal Shot in 2016 France 23 538 13 498 28 1987: Lee Kuan-Yew claimed that (based on the home ownership criterion) 80% of Singaporeans could now be considered to be members of the middle-class Under Lee Singapore had both low inflation and unemployment However much unlike the economic policies of Greece and the rest of Europe Singapore followed a policy of individualising the social safety net This led to a higher than average savings rate and a very sustainable economy in the long run Without a burdensome welfare state or its likeliness Singapore has developed a very self-reliant and skilled workforce well versed for a global economy. (April 2016) Singapore's urban geography is often characterised by extensive use of HDB flats which the majority of citizens reside in.

Meritocracy In 2019 Andrew Lownie a Royal Historical Society fellow wrote that the Federal Bureau of Investigation maintained files regarding Mountbatten's alleged sexuality The files contain a claim by Elizabeth Wharton Drexel that he was "a homosexual with a perversion for young boys" Ron Perks his driver in Malta in 1948 alleged that he used to visit the Red House a gay brothel in Rabat. Anthony Daly a male prostitute in a relationship with Tom Driberg claimed that the latter told him Mountbatten was attracted to young men in military uniforms and boys in school uniforms, There is no unified or centrally cleared market for the majority of trades and there is very little cross-border regulation Due to the over-the-counter (OTC) nature of currency markets there are rather a number of interconnected marketplaces where different currencies instruments are traded This implies that there is not a single exchange rate but rather a number of different rates (prices) depending on what bank or market maker is trading and where it is In practice the rates are quite close due to arbitrage Due to London's dominance in the market a particular currency's quoted price is usually the London market price Major trading exchanges include Electronic Broking Services (EBS) and Thomson Reuters Dealing while major banks also offer trading systems A joint venture of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Reuters called Fxmarketspace opened in 2007 and aspired but failed to the role of a central market clearing mechanism.[citation needed]. Re-exports accounted for 43% of Singapore's total sales to other countries in 2000 Singapore's principal exports are petroleum products food/beverages chemicals textile/garments electronic components telecommunication apparatus and transport equipment Singapore's main imports are aircraft crude oil and petroleum products electronic components radio and television receivers/parts motor vehicles chemicals food/beverages iron/steel and textile yarns/fabrics! National policy actors refer to high-performing PISA countries to "help legitimise and justify their intended reform agenda within contested national policy debates". PISA data can be are "used to fuel long-standing debates around pre-existing conflicts or rivalries between different policy options such as in the French Community of Belgium" in such instances PISA assessment data are used selectively: in public discourse governments often only use superficial features of PISA surveys such as country rankings and not the more detailed analyses Rey (2010:145 citing Greger 2008) notes that often the real results of PISA assessments are ignored as policymakers selectively refer to data in order to legitimise policies introduced for other reasons. . . . .