What Singapore has been good at, he says, is marketing - TopicsExpress



          

What Singapore has been good at, he says, is marketing itself. Singapore has brilliantly sold itself to the world as an amazing success story to attract foreign investment and talent. Its managed to get most Western think-tanks and ratings agencies to give it top scores for such things as competitiveness, transparency, economic freedom, etc. These bodies reflect the interests of foreign capital and their methodologies are shoddy and incompetent at times. And the statistics they are fed by the Singaporean authorities are often dubious and designed to put Singapore in the best light. To sell itself to the world Singapore has also denigrated and patronised its lesser-developed neighbours. Singapore was hardly an economic backwater when Lee Kuan Yew took power in 1959, says King ...
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 22:28:43 +0000

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