Singapore ranked 70th best place to live in the world after Romania
January 17, 2010 by TR (http://www.temasekreview.com)
Singapore is ranked the 70th best place in the world to live in based on the Quality of Life index computed yearly by Ireland-based magazine “International Living”. (Read report here http://www.il-ireland.com/il/qofl2009/)
The index is produced based on the following nine categories: cost of living, culture and leisure, economy, environment, freedom, health, infrastructure, safety and risk and climate.
Each country in each category is graded on a curve and it is scored relative to every other country. The scores run 0 to 100 for each category. This means the country that gets 0 is the worst in that category, and the country that gets 100 is the best.
The data is collated from official government sources, the World Health Organization, The Economist, and many other journals, tables, and records.
While Singapore scores high on risk and safety, health and infrastructure, it scores poorly in environment and freedom, bringing down its final score to a mediocre 61.
The 5 most desirable places to live in the world are France, Australia, Switzerland, Germany and New Zealand. Singapore is ranked below Japan, South Korea and Taiwan among Asian countries.
Singapore’s leaders have always boasted of their accomplishment of transforming Singapore from third to first world country within a few decades, but if Singapore is really a first world country, why is it ranked among third world countries in terms of quality of life?
It is highly unlikely that this damning report will be published by the Singapore media. Neither will anybody from the ruling party respond to it.
They will probably dismiss it as quite “dissociated from reality” to borrow the words of Law Minister K Shanmugam. But International Living is read widely by Europeans and Americans and they may have a poor perception of Singapore based on the report.
If Singapore really wishes to attract first class talents around the world and not just uneducated peasants from China or India, it needs to improve on the two categories of environment and freedom where it performed particularly badly.
A world class healthcare, infrastructure and economy is not everything that people look for in life. They also yearn for civil and political liberties for them to play a meaningful role in society.
Singapore has a first world economy ruled by a petty third world dictatorship. We cannot claim our rightful place as a developed country in the world so long our archaic, oppressive and obsolete political system remains in place to perpetuate the rule of a particular group of self-serving, power-hungry elites with little participation in nation-building from the rest of the people.
The 70th rating is too high. Should have been lower, actually...
January 17, 2010 by TR (http://www.temasekreview.com)
Singapore is ranked the 70th best place in the world to live in based on the Quality of Life index computed yearly by Ireland-based magazine “International Living”. (Read report here http://www.il-ireland.com/il/qofl2009/)
The index is produced based on the following nine categories: cost of living, culture and leisure, economy, environment, freedom, health, infrastructure, safety and risk and climate.
Each country in each category is graded on a curve and it is scored relative to every other country. The scores run 0 to 100 for each category. This means the country that gets 0 is the worst in that category, and the country that gets 100 is the best.
The data is collated from official government sources, the World Health Organization, The Economist, and many other journals, tables, and records.
While Singapore scores high on risk and safety, health and infrastructure, it scores poorly in environment and freedom, bringing down its final score to a mediocre 61.
The 5 most desirable places to live in the world are France, Australia, Switzerland, Germany and New Zealand. Singapore is ranked below Japan, South Korea and Taiwan among Asian countries.
Singapore’s leaders have always boasted of their accomplishment of transforming Singapore from third to first world country within a few decades, but if Singapore is really a first world country, why is it ranked among third world countries in terms of quality of life?
It is highly unlikely that this damning report will be published by the Singapore media. Neither will anybody from the ruling party respond to it.
They will probably dismiss it as quite “dissociated from reality” to borrow the words of Law Minister K Shanmugam. But International Living is read widely by Europeans and Americans and they may have a poor perception of Singapore based on the report.
If Singapore really wishes to attract first class talents around the world and not just uneducated peasants from China or India, it needs to improve on the two categories of environment and freedom where it performed particularly badly.
A world class healthcare, infrastructure and economy is not everything that people look for in life. They also yearn for civil and political liberties for them to play a meaningful role in society.
Singapore has a first world economy ruled by a petty third world dictatorship. We cannot claim our rightful place as a developed country in the world so long our archaic, oppressive and obsolete political system remains in place to perpetuate the rule of a particular group of self-serving, power-hungry elites with little participation in nation-building from the rest of the people.
The 70th rating is too high. Should have been lower, actually...
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