Singapore – Top Gear

... sector development specialist, World Bank From Third World to First, in One Generation Charlotte Jiang In the past 3 weeks since Lee Kuan Yew passed away, the outpouring of tears and sorrow showed the world how much the first Prime Minister and founding father ... ... arrived in Singapore to examine the country’s potential in industrialization in 1960, he gloomily remarked upon the sluggish economy as a “ poor little market in a dark corner of Asia ”. Labor strikes, capital flight, and uncertainty over ...