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Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial trading post is a thriving Asian metropolis with not only the world's number one airline, but also the world's fourth-highest per capita real income? This title is the story of that transformation.

From Third World to First

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      Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
      Published 20 February 2011
      ISBN-13 9780060957513
      978-0060957513
      ISBN-10 0060957514
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      Non Fiction History Asian history

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      Book Synopsis
      Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial trading post is a thriving Asian metropolis with not only the world's number one airline, but also the world's fourth-highest per capita real income? This title is the story of that transformation.

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