While Singapore's economic development has sometimes been understood by policy scholars and economists as a matter of governance and strategic direction by the state, a historical overview would show that the underlying plot of Singapore's economic story has stayed constant over hundreds of years.
Its prosperity has always been due to its ability to find and adapt to shifting hinterlands.
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