Strategists & Statesmen · Modern
Lee Kuan Yew: Building Singapore
How Singapore's founding prime minister took a small port with no resources from expulsion in 1965 to first-world income: pragmatism, meritocracy, anti-corruption, housing, foreign investment, English as the working language, and the costs in press and political freedom.
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Prereqs: Decolonization; the Cold War in Asia. Next: Deng Xiaoping; Development economics. Sources: Lee Kuan Yew, *From Third World to First* (2000); Graham Allison & Robert Blackwill, *Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights* (2013); World Bank data.Next: 1. Timeline