Goh Keng Swee : a legacy of public service

Goh Keng Swee : a legacy of public service / edited by Emrys Chew, Chong Guan Kwa.

"Dr. Goh Keng Swee's extensive career as a public servant was dynamic as well as distinguished, in many ways decisively instrumental in the making of the Republic of Singapore. This distinctive collection of essays attempts an assessment of the long-term influence and significance of Dr. G...

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Other Authors: Chew, Emrys, Kwa, Chong Guan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, ©2012.
Subjects:
Goh, Keng Swee, > 1918-2010.
Goh, Keng Swee, > 1918-2010
1900-1999
Statesmen > Singapore > Biography.
Cabinet officers > Singapore > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Asia > Southeast Asia.
Cabinet officers
Politics and government
Statesmen
Singapore > Politics and government > 20th century.
Singapore
Biographies
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Goh Keng Swee, heroic architect and master builder of modern Singapore / Emrys Chew
  • Goh Keng Swee in a social welfare history of Singapore / Ho Chi Tim
  • Goh Keng Swee in politics and parliament / Kevin Y.L. Tan
  • Goh Keng Swee, the development economist / Lee Soo Ann
  • Goh Keng Swee and finance / Linda Low
  • Goh Keng Swee and the emergence of a modern SAF : the rearing of a poisonous shrimp / Bernard Fook Weng Loo
  • Goh Keng Swee and Singapore's defence industrial policy / Adrian Wee Jin Kuah
  • Goh Keng Swee and the Singapore education system / Alistair Chew
  • Goh Keng Swee's contributions to higher education, military studies, and the research institutes / Ernest Chew
  • Goh Keng Swee and Chinese studies in Singapore : from Confucianism to "China watching" / John Wong
  • Goh Keng Swee's cultural contributions and the making of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Bernard T.G. Tan.

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