...the mid-1990s, the growth of Singapore’s economy over the past 40 years has been nothing less than phenomenal. It also has not been accidental, but the result of the combination of direct goals and the people’s hard-working natures. The statement that Singapore has been the most successful of all the ASEAN nations is based on the fact that its per capita GDP is now higher than even that of Japan. In the 1960s when the first of a series of five-year plans was developed and enacted by the national government, it was among the world’s poorest nations as Nepal is now. Japan has been building its industrialized...