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From Third World to First
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From Third World to First

The Singapore Story 19652000

by Lee Kuan Yew

Recommended by 4 notable people, including Patrick Collison and Balaji S. Srinivasan

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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in About Singapore, Most Recommended Books, and Finance.

Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial trading post is a thriving Asian metropolis with not only the world's number one airline, best airport, and busiest port of trade, but also the world's fourthhighest per capita real incomeThe story of th...

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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in About Singapore, Most Recommended Books, and Finance.

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Herman Mashaba

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Balaji S. Srinivasan

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