Singapore

With no choice but to go it alone after the enforced severance from Malaysia in the mid-1960s, the tiny island of Singapore with a population of less than three million and no natural resources, not only survived but has prospered to an extent that it has become one of the Asia-Pacific region's leading economies, as well as perhaps the envy of other bigger countries. Numerous accounts of the so-called 'economic miracle' are available in many forms, including government-prepared information. Geoffrey Murray's study, however, offers one of the best structured and objective analyses of the…