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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Albert Winsemius was Singapore’s most successful foreign expert, advising the government on economic policy for twenty years. I look at his first contribution to Singapore in 1960-61, explaining why he succeeded when so many experts failed. His main then was to convince the government that Singapore could pivot from entrepot trade to secondary industry against a backdrop of political, economic and social troubles.

Part 1 | https://youtu.be/hE4GDHUNWMM

Part 2 | https://youtu.be/s65-wpq0dfo

00:00 Introduction

01:44 More Than a Lane?

05:21 Failure of Foreign Experts

07:28 Questions of Strategy & Markets

14:17 Human & Political Dimensions

20:43 Winsemius was No. 11

25:24 Singapore’s Self-Belief

30:20 Private Vs. State Capital

33:43 Winsemius’ Economic Influence

34:35 The Common Market

35:15 Independence & Pullout

Loh Kah Seng, ‘Albert Winsemius and the Transnational Origins of High Modernist Governance in Singapore’, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-1556-5_4

Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. This is Dr Loh KS, the people’s historian, and I speak to people on their memories of Singapore before it became a global city.

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