The Singapore Report: National Landscape, Current Challenges and Opportunities for Growth

Author

Institute for Societal Leadership, Singapore Management UniversityFollow
Aji PARAMARTHA
Shihui KHEE
Regina UNSON
Sai HEIN

Publication Type

Report

Publication Date

4-2015

Abstract

Singapore has come a long way, since her beginnings as a sleepy fishing village and a tiny Malay settlement ruled by the Sultan of Johor. Sir Stamford Raffles first arrived in Singapore in 1819 and immediately recognised that its strategic location along the Straits of Malacca would be useful to the British in developing an alternative to challenge Dutch influence and monopoly in the region. During British colonial rule, Singapore developed into an important free port and trade city, an essential trait that continues to feature heavily in Singapore’s economic development to this day.

Keywords

Singapore, Politics, Culture, Development

Discipline

Asian Studies | Growth and Development | History | Political Science

Publication

Published

First Page

1

Last Page

17

Publisher

Institute for Societal Leadership

City or Country

Singapore

Embargo Period

1-25-2017

Citation

Institute for Societal Leadership; PARAMARTHA, Aji; KHEE, Shihui; UNSON, Regina; and HEIN, Sai. The Singapore Report: National Landscape, Current Challenges and Opportunities for Growth. (2015). Published. 1-17.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/isl_research/13

Copyright Owner and License

Singapore Management University

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Additional URL

http://isl.smu.edu.sg/CIL