Can Singapore’s global hub model still work?

Over the past fifty years, Singapore has become one of the world’s most prosperous countries and a dynamic node in the world economy. A new Lowy Analysis Paper examines not only what has driven Singapore’s success in establishing itself as a competitive base of high-value manufacturing and other value-added services, but also how the country, amid regional and global challenges, must adapt its model so as to retain its position at the centre of flows of trade, investment, and people.

Manu Bhaskaran, the paper’s author and CEO of consultancy Centennial Asia, joins Research Fellow Matthew Busch to discuss what Singapore can do to find the policy mix and economic fundamentals to overcome these challenges. 

The Lowy Institute acknowledges the support of the Victorian Government Department of Premier and Cabinet for this event.