William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."
Eleven days in the economic life of Singapore offer a glimpse of what governments are up against in the year of coronavirus. In late March, the city-state unveiled a second relief plan for traumatized businesses and households. Less than two weeks later, it had topped things up with a third.
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