Singapore in the Global System: Relationship, Structure and ChangeThis book tracks the phases of Singapore’s economic and political development, arguing that its success was always dependent upon the territories links with the surrounding region and the wider global system, and suggests that managing these links today will be the key to the country’s future. Singapore has followed a distinctive historical development trajectory. It was one of a number of cities which provided bases for the expansion of the British empire in the East. But the Pacific War provided local elites with their chance to secure independence. In Singapore the elite disciplined and mobilized their population and built successfully on their colonial inheritance. Today, the city-state prospers in the context of its regional and global networks, and sustaining and nurturing these are the keys to its future. But there are clouds on the elite’s horizons; domestically, the population is restive with inequality, migration and surplus-repression causing concern; and internationally, the strategy of constructing a business-hub economy is being widely copied and both Hong Kong and Shanghai are significant competitors. This book discusses these issues and argues that although success is likely to characterize Singapore’s future, the elite will have to address these significant domestic and international problems. |
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... economic growth , continued stability and general pros- perity . There was much pressure for liberalization , which was resisted in the main , and by the early 2000s the economy seemed to have recovered . The old pattern of political ...
... economic growth , social reform and political advance . The characterization is somewhat ambiguous . There are two ele- ments : the period 1992-2001 was shaped by a succession of coalitions of new businessmen and it was an economic boom ...
... economic elites value their positions ; the Beijing authorities are wedded to the idea of economic growth ; there is a coincidence of interest ; and slow success continues under Beijing's benign distant leadership . Scenario 2 ...
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