Capitalist development and human rights: Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew

Autor:	Jeremy B. Williams
Rok vydání:	1992
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Human rights media_common.quotation_subject Democracy Profit (economics) Economic freedom Capitalist development Industrialisation Stern Economy Political economy Economics Free market Social Sciences (miscellaneous) media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Contemporary Asia. 22:360-372
ISSN:	1752-7554 0047-2336
DOI:	10.1080/00472339280000251
Popis:	The apologetic literature on capitalist development has been quite unrelenting in its advocacy of free markets to produce “the right conditions” for economic growth. Invariably, however, the only freedom preserved under so-called free-market policies is the economic freedom of international capital to sell, invest, and repatriate profit. Furthermore, “a favourable investment climate” is created only with the systematic repression of unruly students, trade unionists, the free press, and other democratic processes. Dubbed as a necessary precondition for industrialisation, and vindicated by outsiders in the West, many states in the Third World readily accede to the stern government that is necessary to implement these market-oriented policies. It is this issue that provides the focus of debate in this paper, and special attention is devoted to the experience of Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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