One of the companies visiting Comdex with the Singapore Trade Development Authority was disappointed with his experience.
They will look increasingly to next-door Turkey or distant Singapore as models of development that bring stability and progress.
The rich world has tolerated the rise of mercantilist economies before: think of South Korea's state-led development or Singapore's state-controlled firms, which are active acquirers abroad.
HSBC, Deutsche Bank and Development Bank of Singapore are just a few of the international giants with sophisticated Caymanian operations.
Robert Howe, its CEO, sits on the board of Development Bank of Singapore, a publicly traded bank that is minority-owned by the government.
One hundred years ago in Germany and Japan, 30 years ago in countries such as Argentina and Brazil, and today in places like Singapore and Malaysia, capitalist development has buttressed, rather than undermined, authoritarian regimes.
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DBS, once the Development Bank of Singapore and still the banking face of the island state and its Temasek investment fund, is seen pushing outward from its Southeast Asian base toward a broader pan-Asian presence.
The whole point of choosing Batam for development was its proximity to Singapore.
Having lived in the 1940s and 1950s, just after the defeated Japanese left a poverty stricken Singapore, I have seen the struggles during the development of my then backward country to a modern metropolis.
In fact, Seet argues the multicultural aspects of Singapore are perhaps the "most enriching" to the development of the arts.
The benefits for economic development seemed to justify this approach, and Singapore and Malaysia, too, accepted the idea without question.
Draft LEI rules are also under development in other geographies, such as Canada, Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong, as well as Europe.
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"The research and development carried out in IME is to advance economic growth for Singapore and deliver on healthcare and social benefits, " it said.
On September 13th, six days before the Singapore meeting, Hilary Benn, the British Secretary of State for International Development, announced that the United Kingdom was withholding from the World Bank a fifty-million-pound payment, to protest the conditions the bank attached to aid.
PAP's language of modernity and development, and that it is older voters who feel alienated by Singapore's rapid transformation.
In economies such as these, which compare themselves to Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and the US, when it comes to development targets and real estate prices, similar comparisons should be made in terms of costs of establishing and running businesses.
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"We are confident that our first joint development project in Tanah Merah will set the pace for future collaborations in Singapore and China, " Vanke President Yu Liang said.
"The developed countries must avoid a sterile triumphalism or a one-medicine-cures-all prescription, " Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) meeting in Bangkok last week.
For instance, in Singapore, the Building and Construction Authority, an agency of the federal Ministry of National Development, oversees amusement ride safety.
Stanford's director of executive education program development, Sean Bendarkar, says the school offers a three-week general management program in Singapore which is proving very popular.
Lee is the son of Singapore's founding prime minister, Lee Kwan Yew, who steered the Southeast Asian nation's development for many years while keeping a firm grip on power.
Just as Lee Kuan Yew emerged from the confines of Singapore to become the seer of Asia, so Mr Haq became accepted as one of the visionaries of international development.
And John Townley-Johnson, chief executive at Houses for Africa, a South Africa-based property development and finance company, travels from South Africa to the University of Chicago's London, Singapore or Chicago's campuses every six weeks.
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