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State of Singapore; Singapore: economic situation
In: Current notes on international affairs, Band 31, S. 301-311
ISSN: 0011-3751
Singapore
In: Asian and Pacific migration journal: APMJ, Band 17, Heft 3-4, S. 379-390
ISSN: 0117-1968
World Affairs Online
Singapore
In: International library of social change in Asia Pacific
World Affairs Online
The Secret of Singapore
In: FP, Heft 213
ISSN: 0015-7228
Between 1965 and 1991, Singapore grew at an astonishing compound annual growth rate of nearly 14%. Critics of the island's performance accused its celebrated leader, Lee Kuan Yew, of thinly veiled tendencies toward communism and authoritarianism; they argued that the country's pace of growth was being artificially inflated by investment rates that would quickly prove impossible to sustain. Yet Lee and Singapore outlived, and outperformed, their detractors. The real reason behind Singapore's success was the country's unique understanding of what it had to offer the world and how to craft a development strategy around an honest appraisal of those assets. The Singaporean model is more powerful than dreaming and more likely to achieve results. And it is widely replicable, not with regard to the details of what Lee and his colleagues did, of course, but with regard to how. These are lessons that Cuba's next generation of leaders, unshackled from their predecessors' ambitious but ultimately unrealistic goals, would be well-advised to consider. Adapted from the source document.