Disruption, not anti-trade, should be S'pore's main concern: StanChart

Singapore

FORGET anti-globalisation. What Singapore should really keep its eyes on is the coming of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Standard Chartered economists have said.

And with the city-state engaged in plans to redraw its economic future, how well it emerges from these technological challenges can be a useful model for other larger economies to learn from, the economists added in comments during a media briefing on the bank's global outlook for 2017, held at its office here.