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The COVID 19 pandemic inflicted a major blow on the Singapore economy, as the rapid dissemination and measures taken on control of the virus worldwide had a strong impact on Singapore's operations and consumer sentiment. Singapore's GDP contracted sharply in the first quarter of 2020, with combined travel bans, supply disturbances, and subsequently a decline in demand both abroad and in domestic demand. The GDP growth outlook is expected to collapse in Singapore in 2020 at -4 to -1 percent, although the extent of the detriment and the subsequent recovery remain a major concern at this juncture. Singapore's growth production could collapse below the predicted level by materializing downside risk, mainly depending on the pandemic path and the effectiveness of political responses throughout the world. Following the downturn in global demand and the disruption of supply chains globally, the Singapore sector's trade-related operations could downturn further. Current services growth is also projected to slow as COVID-19 outbreaks have shortened the banking sector's outlook and decreased corporate IT and technical services investment (McKibbin & Fernando, 2020). Doldrums will persist in travel-related and domestic operation until strong evidence emerges for the pandemic to be properly tracked to remove containment measures eventually.

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Similarly, in February, as the nation rose sharply, the growth of non-bank credit to South Korea by the ACU fell. The segment of insurance, however, had to deal with higher claims and reduced prices. Purposes of travel insurance have increased due to mass cancelations of flights and other travel bookings, with the insurer raising its claims due to the suspension and cancelation. In the past two years, the rise in auxiliary activities in finance networks, mainly credit card network operators, has slowed down. Credit card companies' cross-border operations have been struck badly with travel abroad coming to a standstill. While transactions for online grocery have risen, the virus has encountered problems, including regular e-commerce purchases,

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The pandemic of COVID-19 diminished and clouded Singapore's economic prospects significantly. The Singapore economy began in 2020 against a mainly stabilized external perspective (McKibbin & Fernando, 2020). This year, local trading industries were supposed to be more active in signing a US-China Phase 1 trade agreement with new signs of a global electronics cycle turnaround that would boost GDP overall growth. But the COVID-19 pandemic has threatened any rebound, undermining both investment and production demand and supply systems. Increased fear and anxiety and strict restrictions globally continue to weigh strongly on Singapore's real global production.

The prospects of Singapore will depend worldwide on the pandemic. Given a high degree of interconnections between the affected countries, Singapore's GDP Development Perspective depends on the spread, prevalence, and rates of health and economic recovery of the virus. The depth and duration of the Singapore economy's recession and its strength in these living environments will determine consideration. The pandemic has been through several processes of staggered outbreaks across the globe. The first case in China in Wuhan Province was revealed at the end of 2019. In February of this year, the virus spread to other parts of China and its domestic borders to certain regions of Asia (McKibbin & Fernando, 2020).

The weakening of global oil prices would impact several petroleum-related industries. The collapse of world demand and the market's supply flux led to a decline in crude oil prices and an increase in price uncertainty that created a challenging environment for Singapore's oil segments. In addition to industrial operations, such as maritime and overseas engineering (upstream), petroleum, and petrochemical processing (downstream), midstream activities could be impacted by wholesale and transport and raw oil and fuel storage. These sectors collectively make up roughly 4% of Singapore's GDP (Samargandi et al., 2020). In particular, it is a massive industry that created operating surpluses of some 13 billion dollars in 2018, comprising 4.7% of Singapore's overall Gross Surplus of Operations (GOS) (Table 2.4), which is of interest to the wholesales of fuel. There were just 522 companies that year in the sector, which resulted in an average operational surplus of S $ 25 million per facility. This will have a significant effect on the output of any entity in the whole industry. Furthermore, the wholesale fuel industry is possibly related closely to other sectors, including manufacturing, transport & storage, development, and finance for petrochemical goods. In the widespread collapse of companies engaged in wholesale trading in gasoline, the sectors may be affected by contagion effects.

In the pandemic, it is unlikely that the industrial electronics loop will rebound. The industrial period in electronics shows emerging proof of a turnaround in late 2019. However, the outbreak of COVID-19 is likely to delay the recovery as both consumers and companies' cautious spending weighs on end-of-life electronics demand (McKibbin & Fernando, 2020). Changes in consumer sales of electronics are expected in the coming months, as shops are closed, and products are postponed. This might further disrupt the domestic electronics market in the coming months. Nonetheless, the impending introduction of 5 G networks worldwide later this year will prompt some customers and organizations to migrate to 5G-enabled devices and services, promoting final demands (Samargandi et al . , 2020). This allows a quick turnaround of the global electronics cycle with positive impacts for domestic and developing machinery and equipment industries.

In the ICT industry, businesses that engage in the online market business can benefit from growing online purchases. In turn, the general market for IT and information resources from business to business are expected to remain low until companies recover. Any remediation for remote work facilities funded by two-month circuits is also awaited on the market. In compliance with the Infectious Disease Act, which requires all employees to take telecommuting steps because they cannot do so, several businesses have had to trigger their homework arrangements by changing their backing operating mechanism (Loayza & Pennings, 2020). Also, Enterprise Singapore's recently initiated e-commerce Booster Package could support IT companies that offer similar technological solutions to SME retailers with little e-commerce experience to begin sales online.

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Source: DOS and EPG, MAS estimates

* Net residents' expenditure abroad is derived by taking residents' cost abroad fewer non-residents' charge locally

The recession will take effect in Singapore in 2020. At this point, GDP growth is expected to hit – 4 to – 1 percent with low risk this year (McKibbin & Fernando, 2020). In Singapore's trade-related sector, the extreme weakening of the outlook for the world economy, and investment, in particular, would slow down activity. In specific oil-related production and service sectors, the dramatic fall in global oil prices will lead to weakness while tightening financial conditions. A global weaker economic environment will depress modern services market growth more generally. Since it is unlikely that social isolation steps can be completely lifted after the circuit breaker is finished, operation in different industries can presumably remain quiet for some time.

References

Owoye, O., & Onafowora, O. A. (2020). The Role of Educated Leaders in Economic Growth and Development: Evidence from the Central African Republic and Singapore. The Singapore Economic Review, 65(01), 81-102.

Samargandi, N., Kutan, A. M., Sohag, K., & Alqahtani, F. (2020). Equity market and money supply spillovers and economic growth in BRICS economies: A global vector autoregressive approach. The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 51, 101060.