Uploaded on 2018-03-02 by Michelle Zhu

For Singapore, the small city-state that is home, I think three of the most important stocks and flows are capital, food, and people. There is a constant stock of capital in Singapore that has been brought in and invested over the past 50 years, but at the same time there is also constantly a flow of capital: both into Singapore and from Singapore outwards, mostly in investments in neighbouring Southeast Asian countries. Similarly, there is a stock of citizens, but Singapore is also a high-immigration society, contributing to the flow. Recently, there has been a greater differentiation in public opinion of the differences between the 'locals' - the stock, and the 'immigrants' - the flows. Yet there are also people leaving: over 200k Singaporeans are living overseas. Food on the other hand is almost entirely a flow in Singapore, as the lack of land means most food is imported.