The Nature of Singapore's Economy Part I

Since its independence, the PAP government has been very concerned about how Singapore is portrayed abroad, and is at pains to make Singapore look good internationally, to foreigners.

Part of the rationale behind this is to portray Singapore as an investor-friendly place to attract investments, and hence create jobs for its multitudes of unskilled labour—a feature of Singapore in the 1960s.

However, within this process and over 50 years, the government has not managed to be cognisant of how Singaporeans see Singapore, of the reputation of Singapore amongst Singaporeans, and what Singapore stands for.