From Third World to First

From Third World to First

An absorbing and in-depth look at Lee Kuan Yew, the man whose singular vision transformed a tiny island into an economically thriving socialist-democratic state that has become the leader of the new Asian economy. This book details his complex economic and social engineering strategies, many of which continue to impact and influence the way business is done, and economies are shaped, all across Asia - and therefore the World - today.

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Lee Kuan Yew was born in Singapore on September 16, 1923, a third-generation descendant of immigrants from China's Guangdong Province. He read law at Cambridge University, England. In 1954 he formed the People's Action Party, which won the first Singapore general election five years later. Lee became the country's first prime minister in 1959, at the age of thirty-five. In November 1990 he resigned the office to assume the post of senior minister in the Singapore cabinet.