The Singapore debate featured in many of my holiday conversations. Some folks are cautiously optimistic. Others worry about hurdles that could keep us from this vision.
Of course, nay-sayers insist that it is not possible to achieve high income status any time, in the this or next generation. They blame everything from leadership to corruption and weak institutions. Others take the typology quite literally, as though it would be cut and paste. And then as the break progressed, I heard an interesting variant.
