Singapore shows the world the way ahead
There are few things as satisfying as an idea whose time has come.
For Singaporeans on the cusp of half a century of Independence, that satisfaction should come from knowing that everyone else now wants to learn their style of government for a better future, say The Economist's John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge.
That model, as they outline beautifully in their new book The Fourth Revolution, is about having a bright and technologically astute corps of elites govern a country efficiently and productively - all on the leanest of budgets. In all, governing Singapore chews up only about 17 per cent of its gross domestic product, less than the 25 per cent limit proposed by British economist John Maynard Keynes, they add, calling the Singapore model "the Asian alternative" to the largely bloated, bumbling and bribe-happy governments elsewhere.
Crediting founding father Lee Kuan Yew as its creator, the authors laud his style as "tough love" which is "elitist and stingy", resulting in the greatest economic "miracle" of the past 70 years.
That, the authors argue, had a lot to do with his insistence on self-reliance, in the form of the Central Provident Fund where 90 per cent of what you get depends on what you put in, instead of social assistance, which he considers an "all-you-caneat" buffet, as practised most notably in welfarist Scandinavia.
if success can be copied ,all the businesses will be successful.
just follow what other do.
ibm would not have to sell its PC Division to Lenovo.
only idiots and someone paid to write good report will ignore this fact.
the two idiots here forgot that :
1] sillypooo is very beri veri tiny.
2] when the Great Leeder took over from the british ,
this swamp land (according to die hard like SamLeong)
or this tiny land was already well developed.
3] the Great Leeder cried when his hope to be the Agong of Malaysia
was dashed.
cry because he was at a total lost of what to do with sillypoo on its own.
or pretending to be sad , or truly veri beri sad.
this started the trend of MPs like to cry often in sillypooo.
4] Great Leeder seeked help from United Nation.
and Dr Winsemius was sent here to help.
5] in the early stage the sillypootians were mostly uneducated and docile.
and in the later stage the sillypootians are mostly very timid.
in other words , Great leeder has a submissive workforce under its control.
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cannot write too many , wait kena ban by samleong