Singapore a Good Policy Laboratory for Other Countries: Expert

The Straits Times

19 January 2017

Singapore is a “policy laboratory” that both developed and developing countries can look to in crafting their policies, said an American expert on East Asia and author of a new book on the Republic.

“Singapore is simply smart and adaptive – as both a nation and as an urban community – in a volatile global world,” said Dr Kent Calder of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, at the launch of his book.

And Singapore offers important lessons “in a world of conspicuous institutional failure”, he said at the event at the Singapore Embassy in Tokyo on Monday.

In his book, Singapore – Smart City, Smart State, Dr Calder dissects Singapore’s smartness in two ways: how it is strategic and responsive to changing circumstances, and how it has been ready to tap new digital technologies.

… Dr Calder, director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Centre for East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins, served as professor of strategic studies at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies last year.

Categories:

RSIS / Print / Online