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,people who throw garbage or even in what shape trash cans at streets are in. These devices will be as abundant as traffic lights or as bus stops (Jimenez, 2014).
topics are constantly criticized by the International Community:
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Singapore is one of the best countries to do business in Asia, due to the fact that it probably is the least bureaucratic country on the continent; registering an enterprise doesn’t take that long, which also helps to the establishment of new enterprises, plus, investors are offered protection and the effective fulfillment of contracts. Favorable tax regimes and skilled workforce make Singapore an attractive destination for business and investment. Singapore tops the list of the most favorable economies for entrepreneurship in the world, according to “Doing Business 2015” ranking of the World Bank Group. It was Lee Kuan Yew, who transformed Singapore into one of the most important financial centers worldwide:
Tourism is the third biggest industry, after the banking and production industry. Attracting more than seven million visitors every year, Singapore is one of the few countries that can attract a number of visitors that is actually bigger than its own population (Mokrova, 2006). However, not everything is perfect in developed countries; Singapore has severe issues concerning human rights, death penalty, corporal punishment and limits imposed to freedom of speech, those
Today, those practices were highly criticized by Human Rights Watch, an organization that remembered: “The tremendous role of Lee in the economic development is out of question, but that was achieved at the expense of human rights, we can see it in the current restrictions to freedom of expression, self-censorship and a damaged multiparty democracy; a heritage that Singapore now needs to overcome (Prieto, 2015).
During Lee’s management, restrictions were imposed to freedom of expression and assembly; the objective was to achieve political stability, which was necessary to encourage inward investment and trade abroad. He also imprisoned political opponents without trial and filed libel suits against journalists and political opponents: “I had to do some nasty things, imprison people without trial” Lee declares in an interview with The New York Times, published in September of 2010. “I am not saying that all I did was correct. However, all I did had an honorable purpose”.
The country is ranked in the 150th place of the list of Reporters without Borders 2014, concerning the Press Freedom Index and placing Singapore right above