Women who agreed to be sterilized after their second child were rewarded USD5, 000 (about Sh420, 000), given priority for public housing and their children got into good schools. To date, Singaporeans think that two is the right number of children. Perhaps the most enduring move was the requirement that all workers save a minimum of 25 per cent of their salaries. They would claim the money only after the age of 55. This formed one of the secrets behind Singapore’s incredible economic growth. The money would go into a Central Provident Fund, with which the government built roads, schools, hospitals and housing. Yew’s administration saw 74 per cent of families owning their homes. His goal, however, was 100 per cent. It is hard to define Singapore. This is a dictatorship nation blended with free flow of information.
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These tremendous developments have successfully kicked poverty out of Singapore. Currently, the percentage of unemployed people above the age 15 is two per cent, the highest employment rate internationally.
The Ministry of Manpower says the impressive employment level is due to unrelenting emphasis and investment in education.

Social cohesion and paths to self-betterment.
Cohesion: tolerance across vertical and horizontal divides
Access to political representation and dispute resolution
Policing and security of property, tenure and person.
Access to and equality before the law
Access to education and information
Access to work, security in work, transitions between work
Management of the extremes of inequality

Development appears to occur when a number of necessary components are put in place, and the equivalent checks have been removed. To grow, a plant needs air, light, water, the correct temperature, mineral nutrients and the like. Any one of these can be a limiting factor and restrict the plant's growth. When the supply of any one of these is limiting, then adding what is needed or otherwise adjusting the system to correct the limit will produce a burst of growth. Injections of capital, the creation of security or a change in political balances may correct something which was limiting in the social fabric of a nation, and a burst of activity will follow. Much of the early literature on development extrapolated from individual events of this sort to general - usually economic - prescriptions. We now know that his is an inadequate approach. Nations which are limited in one particular manner - as was, perhaps, China during the cultural revolution and its aftermath - may show rapid and multifaceted growth once this constraint has been removed. Nations in which very few of the required features are in place will, by contrast, prove refractory to almost all interventions. Nothing happens because too many links in the necessary systems have yet to be put in place.

What, in broad terms, are these features? They fall into three major categories: the maintenance of stability, constructive economic change and overall social cohesion. We examine these in detail in a moment. Each of these elements consists of many contributory parts. Most of these form cross-links between these categories. Taken together, however, these factors create a system which gives rise to the phenomenon of development. In essence, a complex system - the society - is able to become more even complex only when all of the parts that are necessary to is adaptability are firmly in place. When they are not, then local systems of governance and the scope of individual aspirations are limited to relatively simple and established horizons.

Population | 5,460,302 | 44,037,656 | Life Expectancy | 84.070 years | 63.290 years | Capital City | Singapore | Nairobi | Largest city | Singapore (population: 3,547,810) | Nairobi (population: 2,750,550) | Human Development Index | 0.918 | 0.532 | GDP per capita | $61,400 US | $1,800 US | Literacy Rate | 92.5% | 85.1% | Corruption Perception Index | 9.2 | 2.1 | Percentage of Women in Parliament | 24.5% | 9.8% | Wealthiest Citizens | Ng Teng Fong & family ($5.5bn US) | NA | Unemployment Rate | 1.900% | 40.000% | Death Penalty | Legal | Abolished in practice |