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From Third World to First: The Singapore Story
History / Politics
Lee Kuan Yew's first-person account of building Singapore from a malarial port into a global financial center. Balaji invokes it constantly as the proof-of-concept that competent governance, order, and rule of law can compound into a first-world city in a single generation.
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Balaji Srinivasan
“Lee Kuan Yew wrote a book. From third world to first. Back then he admired San Francisco. But today, history is running in reverse. Going from Singapore to San Francisco… …is from first world to third.”
Tweet from September 16, 2023 contrasting Singapore's ascent with San Francisco's decline.