Singapore : Re-Engineered Success

by Arun Mahizhnan; Lee Tsao Yuan

• ISBN13: 9780195884791
• ISBN10: 0195884795
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Summary

The book discusses Singapore's efforts in re-engineering its fundamentals for the future. It offers a wide range of perspectives and perceptions on the challenges ahead, and suggestions and speculations on possible directions towards which Singapore may be heading.

Table of Contents

Foreword	iii
Hsuan Owyang
Acknowledgements	iv
Introduction	vii
Arun Mahizhnan
Lee Tsao Yuan
Section 1 Vision for the Future
Singapore of the Future	2	(8)
Lee Hsien Loong
Singapore at the Crossroads of Civilization	10	(9)
Wang Gungwu
Singapore in Regional and Global Context: Sustaining Exceptionalism	19	(13)
Michael Leifer
Section 2 Living with Limitations
Constraints of Land Resources	32	(7)
Lim Hng Kiang
Constraints of Manpower Resources	39	(11)
Lim Swee Say
Section 3 Managing Diversity
Contemplating an Open Culture: Transcending Multiracialism	50	(12)
Kuo Pao Kun
From Administrative State to Innovative Society	62	(7)
David Lim Tik En
State and Society: Ambling Towards Greater Balance	69	(13)
Chua Beng Huat
Section 4 Fostering Family, Community and Citizenship
The Age of the Aged	82	(10)
Yap Mui Teng
Phillip Tan Eng Seong
Bonding Community for Good Times and Bad	92	(6)
Chan Soo Sen
State-Society Synergies: New Stakes, New Partnership	98	(14)
Ooi Giok Ling
Gillian Koh
Cultivating Citizenship and National Identity	112	(12)
Kwok Kian Woon
Mariam Ali
Section 5 Re-Engineering Public Administration
PS21: Gearing up the Public Service for the 21st Century	124	(8)
Lim Siong Guan
The Courts in the 21st Century: A Framework for Change	132	(6)
Yong Pung How
Developing an Intelligent Island: Dilemmas of Censorship	138	(14)
Stephen Yeo Siew Chye
Arun Mahizhnan
Section 6 Moving Ahead, Staying Anchored
The Coming Challenge: An Entrepreneurial Pathway for the 21st Century	152	(11)
Y Y Wong
Singapore in the International Economy: Going Global, Staying Singaporean	163	(9)
Tan Kong Yam
Section 7 Playing in the International League
Size is not Destiny	172	(17)
Tommy Koh
Notes on Authors	189