Dynamics of the Singapore Success Story: Insights by Ngiam Tong Dow

Table of Contents (vii)......Page 7
Foreword (ix)......Page 9
Introduction by Zhang Zhibin (xi)......Page 11
Editor’s Acknowledgments (xxxv)......Page 34
Part 1. Toward a Knowledge-based Economy: Dynamics of the Singapore Success Story (1)......Page 48
1. Dynamics of the Singapore Success Story (3)......Page 49
2. Musings of a Singapore Administrator (9)......Page 54
3. From Third World to First? (21)......Page 65
4. Strategic Pragmatism (27)......Page 71
5. The Strategic Pragmatism of China and Singapore (35)......Page 78
6. China, Japan, Singapore: Three Development Perspectives (43)......Page 85
7. A Socratic Dialogue: Global Competition in a Knowledge-based World (47)......Page 89
8. The Ministry of National Development in the 21st Century (51)......Page 93
9. The Role of the Ministry of Finance in Singapore’s Economic Development (59)......Page 101
10. Exporting Knowledge: Can Singapore Compete? (65)......Page 106
11. Looking within for Solutions: Building and Exporting Our Knowledge (73)......Page 114
12. The Bukit Timah Dialogue (79)......Page 120
13. The Development Economics of Emergent Countries (83)......Page 124
Part 2. Pillars of the Knowledge-based Economy (91)......Page 131
14. Foreword to Management of Success: Singapore Revisited (93)......Page 132
15. Singapore Elites for the 21st Century (99)......Page 137
16. “Sense of Urgency” Drove Creative Ideas (109)......Page 146
17. Reporting: Then and Now (113)......Page 149
18. Economics and Economists in the Public Administration of Singapore (119)......Page 154
19. On Thinking in an Enlightened Society (131)......Page 166
20. Of Government, Innovation, and the Social Sector: An Interview with Ngiam Tong Dow (137)......Page 172
21. Individual Rights and Public Interest in Development: Singapore’s Experience (145)......Page 179
22. HDB Should Also Build Condos (155)......Page 188
23. A Winning Formula, “But We Overdid It” (165)......Page 198
24. Singapore in the New World (171)......Page 203
25. Financial and banking pillars The World’s First Venture Capitalist (177)......Page 208
26. Singapore Banking in the 21st Century (185)......Page 215
Part 3. Implications of the Singapore Success Story to China (191)......Page 221
27. Is China’s Growth Sustainable? (193)......Page 222
28. The Selection of China’s Top Leaders (197)......Page 225
29. Land Reform and Sustainable Growth (199)......Page 227
30. Singapore–China Collaboration and Partnership in Science and Technology: Possibilities? (203)......Page 231
List of Acronyms (209)......Page 237