People power
Singapore may not have any natural resources to speak of, but its success has been built on a hardworking and resilient population
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Lee U-Wen
A KEY strength of Singapore is its hardworking, adaptable, goal-oriented, and resilient population. Without the advantage of natural resources, Singapore has had to rely heavily on human capital to achieve its goals.
Washington-based risk consultancy agency, Business Environment Risk Intelligence, has rated Singapore's labour force as the world's best workers since 1980. To some extent, it can be said that the Republic has been successful on the domestic and international stage because of the quality of its labour force.
The government, under the late founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, made it a priority to develop its human capital, and this approach has continued to this very day. Education is taken very seriously.
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