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Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.

It is located about one degree of latitude north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south, the South China Sea to the east, and the Straits of Johor to the north.

The country's territory is composed of one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet; the combined area of these has increased by 25% since the country's independence as a result of extensive land reclamation projects.

It has the third highest population density in the world, although there are numerous green and recreational spaces as a result of urban planning.

With a multicultural population and in recognition of the cultural identities of the major ethnic groups within the nation, Singapore has four official languages – English, Malay, Mandarin, and Tamil.

English is the lingua franca, with its exclusive use in numerous public services.

Multi-racialism is enshrined in the constitution and continues to shape national policies in education, housing, and politics.

A "help wanted" sign seeks available workers for jobs.

Labour economics, or labor economics, seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the markets for wage labour.

Labour is a commodity that is supplied by labourers, usually in exchange for a wage paid by demanding firms.

Because these labourers exist as parts of a social, institutional, or political system, labour economics must also account for social, cultural and political variables.

Productivity is the efficiency of production of goods or services expressed by some measure.

Measurements of productivity are often expressed as a ratio of an aggregate output to a single input or an aggregate input used in a production process, i.e. output per unit of input, typically over a specific period of time.

The most common example is the (aggregate) labour productivity measure, one example of which is GDP per worker.

There are many different definitions of productivity (including those that are not defined as ratios of output to input) and the choice among them depends on the purpose of the productivity measurement and data availability.

The key source of difference between various productivity measures is also usually related (directly or indirectly) to how the outputs and the inputs are aggregated to obtain such a ratio-type measure of productivity.

Human resources (HR) is the set of people who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector, industry, or economy.

A narrower concept is human capital, the knowledge and skills which the individuals command.

Similar terms include manpower, labor, personnel, associates or simply: people.

In sales, commerce, and economics, a customer (sometimes known as a , buyer, or purchaser) is the recipient of a good, service, product or an idea - obtained from a seller, vendor, or supplier via a financial transaction or exchange for money or some other valuable consideration.