Give me couple of days and I will get back. In the meantime I recommend WG Huff for a historical and institutional account of S'pore development. The main thing to understand is its ability to ride with the expansionary wave of the world economy. This calls for an understanding of internal economic flexibility with a strong state with clear goals and its capacity to follow through. It's geopolitical alliance with the US was also helpful. It may import everything but it also exports everything it makes (not counting durian, which it no longer has, it is a foul smelling fruit that looks like a jackfruit but considered a delicacy, used in ice cream too:)
Cheers, Anthony xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anthony P. D'Costa Associate Professor Ph: (253) 692-4462 Comparative International Development Fax: (253) 692-5718 University of Washington Box Number: 358436 1900 Commerce Street Tacoma, WA 98402, USA xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Paul Phillips wrote: > This query was put to me by a colleague and former pen-l-er. > Anybody familiar enough with Singapore to suggest an answer for > this student? > > Paul Phillips > Economics, > University of Manitoba > > ------- Forwarded message follows ------- > >Date sent: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:17:36 -0600 > >To: "phillips, paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >From: "J.I. Vorst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Singapore > > > >> Paul, I know nothing about Singapore. Any suggestions for this student? > >> jesse > >> > > >> >From: "tyler markowsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:23:37 +0000 > > >> >Professor Vorst, > > >> > I am particularly interested in the last part of your lecture > >> >today, where you were comparing the economics of smaller countries to > >> >larger countries with regards to their imports/exports. I am very > >> >interested in the idea that a very small country, like Singapore, which > >> >imports most, if not all of their needs for maintaining life. Yet it is a > >> >thriving, wealthy country. > >> > > >> > Maybe, due to its small size, the logistics of running Singapore > >> >does not play a major role in its domestic spending. In this, I mean the > >> >social programs that many liberal-capitalistic nations pursue. > >> >(i.e.: roads, transportation, health care, defense, etc,.) Yet it does > >> >invest allot of money in science, technology and education. As a result, > >> >Singapore has become an international hub for technology literally and > >> >figuratively. > > >> > So I guess what I am driving at here is, why does Singapore > >> >stand out internationally as a wealthy nation when most of the cards have > >> >been dealt against it? Do you think that Singapore should become an > >> >international example on how to run an ideal nation? > >> > > >> > Or maybe I am just a whacked out kid that wastes his time > >> >thinking about such nonsense. > >> > > >
