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发帖数: 11508 | 1 Singapore Seen Overtaking Malaysia 45 Years After Lee's Tears
By Shamim Adam - Nov 10, 2010 11:01 AM ET
Forty-five years after Singapore’s expulsion from a union with Malaysia
left Lee Kuan Yew in tears on national television, the economy of the city-
state he led to independence is poised to overtake its neighbor.
Singapore’s gross domestic product will cap its fastest annual growth this
year since independence, rising as much as 15 percent to about $210 billion,
while the economy of Malaysia, a country 478 times its size, will expand 7
percent to $205 billion, government forecasts show. The nations are
scheduled to release their 2010 data by February.
The island that former economic adviser Albert Winsemius once said was
considered a “poor little market in a dark corner of Asia” is now ranked
by the World Bank as the easiest place to do business, has the world’s
second-busiest container port, and boasts the highest proportion of
millionaire households, according to the Boston Consulting Group.
Singapore was kicked out of the union partly because Lee opposed Malaysia’s
affirmative-action policy, which provides special rights to the ethnic
Malay majority
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-...e-in-tears.html
It is like a state of the USA seceding and overtaking the rest of it. |
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