SINGAPORE'S economy grew 2.2% in 2002 but may not fully recover until 2004, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday, suggesting the city-state might have escaped recession in the 4th quarter.
However, Singapore faced structural unemployment, growing competition from China and an uncertain global economy as war in Iraq approached, Goh said in his annual New Year's address.
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