Singapore, a model without limits?

A model

« Singapore-on-Thames« 

Years ago, Philip Hammond, then Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer used the expression as a means of encouraging the EU to get a good Brexit deal with the UK and predict a possible success story for the country.

As London is looking to become a ‘Singapore on Thames‘ or ‘Singapore of the West’ the expression has become popular. The goal is for the UK without the burden of EU regulation to become a free-wheeling financial hub that engages in business freely.

‘Similarly’ to the UK, Singapore split from Malaysia in 1965 and became a great economic success that no one could have predicted at the time. Not even Lee Kuan Yew the leader of Singapore at the time who did everything to prevent that separation.

What exactly are the factors that help the country to become the economic model it is today and what are its limits?

French speaking program on Geopolitic : Le dessous des Cartes.