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Singapore Will Lose Her Place Among World’s Top Global Cities Within 20 years. Whose

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Singapore Will Lose Her Place Among World’s Top Global Cities Within 20 years. Whose Fault Is It?
Posted by: Jude Chan May 9, 2014 in Business, General, Headlines, Singapore, Spotlight

Top global cities of today, and rising cities of tomorrow.

Singapore’s Southeast Asian neighbours Jakarta, Manila, and Kuala Lumpur will overtake the wealthy island-nation at the top of the list of global cities that are attractive to international companies within 20 years, according to a study by global management consulting firm A. T. Kearney.

Jakarta and Manila top the list of emerging cities that will soon be at the centre of global businesses. Kuala Lumpur was ranked 10th in the Chicago-based firm’s Emerging Cities Outlook (ECO) report.

Singapore, on the other hand, is expected to fall quickly out of favour among global businesses looking to set up headquarters.

A. T. Kearney’s Global Cities Index (GCI) measures the performance of major cities worldwide in business activity, human capital, information exchange, cultural experience, and political engagement. The accompanying ECO examines the potential of cities in low- and middle-income countries in improving their future global positioning.

Jakarta and Manila, boosted by giant leaps in human capital and healthcare quality, are set to be catapulted to the top of the world’s global cities in less than two decades despite issues of widespread poverty and infrastructural shortcomings the countries currently face.

Meanwhile, Singapore’s meteoric rise as an economic powerhouse achieved in the remarkably short span of just under 50 years since the nation’s independence, looks to be fizzling out and hurtling towards a black hole.

Xenophobia has crept into the country, with a section of Singaporeans increasingly agitated over the government’s hearty immigration policies. Even as the young nation – facing the double-whammy of limited natural resources and a fertility rate that has fallen below replacement level – struggles to forge for itself a national identity, fingers are pointed adamantly at the influx of “foreign talent”. (See: “Singapore: A Nation Under Siege – From Within”)

Costs of living are skyrocketing, the wheels are coming off of the once-dependable public transport system, a widening wealth gap is leaving more Singaporeans disillusioned and disenfranchised… Perhaps, the image of crude profanities aimed at the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP), smeared in red paint across the rooftop of a HDB block in Toa Payoh, one of Singapore’s oldest housing estates, speaks a thousand words: for some Singaporeans, the unhappiness has gone through the roof.

The government, though, cannot be accused of lack of trying.
For example, Singapore Budget 2014 was one of the most generous in the nation’s history, designed to ease the burden off its less well-off citizens. (See: “Can Singapore Budget 2014 Help Bridge the Gap in the “World’s Most Expensive City”?”)

At the same time, the government has also unveiled a Progressive Wage Model (PWM), Singapore’s version of a minimum wage, to be implemented for low-wage workers in the cleaning and security industries. (See: “Not the Singapore National Minimum Wage”)

That well-meaning move, however, brings about a new set of problems.
To date, only 15 per cent of some 900 cleaning firms have received their license to operate under the new wage system. While the remaining cleaning companies have until September to get their licences, Environment and Water Resources Minister Vivian Balakrishnan was quoted as saying he expects the number of cleaning firms to drop to “several hundred”.

Economic reality bites as Singapore grapples with what it means to have a minimum wage and less foreign labour: maybe some jobs will disappear entirely. And maybe Singaporeans will finally have to clean up after themselves at food centres.

Indeed, Singapore is a nation at the crossroads. We cannot have our cake and eat it. We must choose. Will it be Singaporean-first, Singapore Inc last?
As The Establishment Post editor Sharon Snodgrass notes in an earlier article: “It is time to move forward again as a nation ready and willing and confident that Singapore can once again take on the odds and beat them.” (See: “Singapore 2.0: Going through Labour Pains and the Problems of Success”)

Is it possible to be both “happy” and “successful”?
Perhaps, only we can decide if we want to be happy, or successful. Or both.

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PAP's fault.

The decline started 5years ago and has accelerated.

We have not seen the worse yet for Singapore. LHL's bad policies continue to have bad effects

And SG's slide will continue for the next 15 years
 

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ba ba la chongggggggggg u are back :eek:
 

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PAP's fault.

What we need is Albert Winsemius #2. Only with sound fiscal policies coupled with strong economic plans, can we then re-structure our economy and social structure.
 

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Everyone.. please give it a fark.. for ba ba la chong is back.... standing ovation NOW
 

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Altogether now!!! Super duper loud loud!!! Fark ah!!!
 

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s'pore is just too expensive.:o
 

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Isn't that what Singaporeans want?.. a city that is not interested in being number one, that puts happiness ahead of materialism and enjoys an easy pace of life with slower economic growth.
 

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PAP's fault.

The decline started 5years ago and has accelerated.

We have not seen the worse yet for Singapore. LHL's bad policies continue to have bad effects

And SG's slide will continue for the next 15 years

And WP are still not able balance the book of one GRC ...hehe
 

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I luv you barbarachong. How was your business standing at bananaleg?
 

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I luv you barbarachong. How was your business standing at bananaleg?
Want to try your service at bananaleg. What is you rate? Hope it is not too loose.
 

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I wouldn't say it's the PAP's fault. Singapore is just a tiny island, she has her limitations - land. And with this restriction, growth in other areas are also limited. However, I have to say that the current rulers have taken all the credit for the city-states meteoric rise to global fame and has punched beyond her weight level so far, but alas, all good things must come to an end. And this is because the surrounding countries have moved passed their darker days of political disturbance, educated their youth, improved their infrastructure and mobilised their population and resources for growth in a regions set for peace and stability.

In the last few decades, Singapore's progress would have taken place whether it was the PAP or somebody else in power, as long as the leaders were not extremely corrupt or inept. Reason being that Singapore was smack right in the centre of a relatively peaceful region and on the "right" side of the world's powerhouses. Being fluent in English helped a lot too. And people, being people, if left to do what they do naturally brings economic growth. For some reason, the population seems content to attribute all this progress to superb leadership and guidance by the political leaders when their jobs were relatively easy compared to politicians in other parts of the world. But being politicians, they took credit and all the accolades for Singapore's prosperity. So the title of this thread has got more to do with other regional countries rising up than with Singapore's slowdown. This is my view.

Cheers!

PAP's fault...........
 

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PAP has to go and Singapore will be fine,
all their bullshit over the past 8 yrs did
good only for the Familee and their Cronies.
 

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I wouldn't say it's the PAP's fault. Singapore is just a tiny island, she has her limitations - land. And with this restriction, growth in other areas are also limited. However, I have to say that the current rulers have taken all the credit for the city-states meteoric rise to global fame and has punched beyond her weight level so far, but alas, all good things must come to an end. And this is because the surrounding countries have moved passed their darker days of political disturbance, educated their youth, improved their infrastructure and mobilised their population and resources for growth in a regions set for peace and stability.

In the last few decades, Singapore's progress would have taken place whether it was the PAP or somebody else in power, as long as the leaders were not extremely corrupt or inept. Reason being that Singapore was smack right in the centre of a relatively peaceful region and on the "right" side of the world's powerhouses. Being fluent in English helped a lot too. And people, being people, if left to do what they do naturally brings economic growth. For some reason, the population seems content to attribute all this progress to superb leadership and guidance by the political leaders when their jobs were relatively easy compared to politicians in other parts of the world. But being politicians, they took credit and all the accolades for Singapore's prosperity. So the title of this thread has got more to do with other regional countries rising up than with Singapore's slowdown. This is my view.

Cheers!

In the mean time WP are not able to fix the S&CC arrears for JUST ONE GRC
 

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Want to try your service at bananaleg. What is you rate? Hope it is not too loose.

wenjin... I am screen capturing your comment and reporting you to the relevant. You are posting comment that are degrading to woman.
 

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wenjin... I am screen capturing your comment and reporting you to the relevant. You are posting comment that are degrading to woman.
wenjin, please let us know her rate and service. thanks.
 

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20 years still a long way to go. By that time, KL population may reach 10 mil, jakarta, 30 mil, manila 20 mil etc. Only way to compete is to invite more people into singapore.
anyway, jakarta and manila have issues with government funded projects that get bogged down in court. I think India also face same problem. and all these countries faces currency volatility. Good if expat paid in USD.
 
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