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  1. PatO

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    Education and discipline in Singapore as well as a strict government made Singapore, all a weakness in the Philippines.
     
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    PatO, Aug 8, 2015
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    Could it be the Forbes Philippines 50 wealthiest who own a high percentage of the here businesses do not want competition because they are doing quite well thank you?
     
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    IMO the wealthy people here do not want the people to progress. If the average bloke had a decent job they could tell the mini-kings here to get stuffed.
    Powerful people here would not enjoy that treatment.
    There is some confusion between "fear" and "respect" here.
     
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  4. Jack Peterson

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    Absolutely, Singapore made it through Sheer Grit and Determination of its Government. They Enforce all Laws and this is where it starts.:wink:

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    IMO the wealthy people here and the church do not want the people to progress. If the average bloke had a decent job they could tell the mini-kings here to get stuffed.
     
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    SINGAPORE – “Country envy” is how some Filipinos describe the feeling of coming to this neighboring city-state. From the modern architectural marvels, the touchscreen MRT ticketing machines to the 118.8 Mbps average broadband speed, one question always pops up: Can the Philippines do this?

    While some Filipinos see the comparison as self-flagellation, Singapore's top intellectuals take a different view. Like his late colleague Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's former Ambassador to the United Nations Kishore Mahbubani sees great potential in the Philippines.

    “This is absolutely not unique to Singapore. If there's one country that will definitely succeed with meritocracy, pragmatism and honesty, that's the Philippines. I say this because Filipinos are among the most talented people in the world today,” Mahbubani told Rappler.

    Dubbed the most famous Singaporean abroad after Lee, Mahbubani now leads the institution built to give away the secrets of Singapore's success. The dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and his colleagues said leaders in the Philippines and developing nations can take Singapore's best practices, particularly from the old days of its late founding father.

    #SG50: 'Philippines can succeed like Singapore'

    Until the dynasty's have all been jailed I don't think the ph could ever succeed in becoming like Singapore,even then it would take 100 years.
     
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    There are two sides to this,if foreigners cannot own any land or business here nothing will move forward as no big business will invest here if they cannot own it.
    They could think to keep a good portion of the money made here in the pi and this could be another way to try and get more investors here and for private owners it could be something like any private owner can own 1500sqm of land and no relatives can build on adjoining land so at least then there would be more opertunity and incentive to come here and invest.
     
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    DavyL200, Sep 14, 2015
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    Pretty optimistic to compare the Philippines to Singapore by any measurement. They are light years ahead. The oligarchy in the Philippines would never allow the level of success that Singapore has seen.

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    Marcos was not so bad!. Dont believe the spin. The masses of Gold here left by the Japanese during WW2 [ commonly called "yamashitas treasure " ] was allocated to the entire planet as a global debt facility by Marcos himself. He was independantly wealthy anyway - paid in Gold in the 50s for legal work he did between the Vatican and The Philippines - for gold loaned to The Vatican during the 1920s - The World Bank are in the process of a global financial reset using this very Gold bullion.There is much much more Gold than we are led to believe. The world banks lawyer - whistleblower Karen Hudes -who is the legal rep for the Global Debt facility tweets daily on behind the scenes negotiations on this complex story - https://twitter.com/KarenHudes?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author
     
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    The reason the wages are so low is because they are normal and acceptable in the Philippines. Businesses outsource to the Philippines to take advantage of the lower labor costs. If the labor costs were not cheaper then they would not be moving jobs overseas to begin with. If there were more competition for workers, or better (higher) minimum wage laws in the Philippines then it may drive up the wages paid. As long as the labor costs threshold is lower than they are in their home countries then companies will continue to outsource.
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    You bring up an interesting point of view which I have never before considered.
     
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