Most of the good policies the west could steal are perfectly obvious. It's a lack of will, not a lack of ideas or a petri dish. HDBs are nothing new - western governments know how effective it would be to copy - they simply dont want to.
Re:Singapore: Sovereign City
by alexilliamson on Sunday December 05, 2021 @11:25AM
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I think it probably goes on more than people outside of local government realize. I only worked for the City of New Orleans for two years, but in that time we had delegations from governments in Japan and Israel visit our office to talk about our open data infrastructure and performance tracking.
Re:Singapore: Sovereign City
by thuccess129 on Sunday December 05, 2021 @06:42AM
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> "Thousands of Chinese officials are sent to Singapore each year to learn from the city-state’s experience"
The Communist Party ruling over China has been a giant footgun on the Chinese national interest and development. China could've put itself back together after WW2 like Germany, France, Japan did. Good to see and hear US center for learning Chinese language/culture/history has relocated from Beijing to Taiwan.
I hope that the anglosphere governments behave like this and I don't know about it. Good or bad, there is a lot to learn by going out and looking at how things work elsewhere.
The most obvious advantage I have seen in the Chinese model vs the Western model is they try things and pick up what works. Using Singapore as a petri dish then importing the ideas that seem to generate wealth is a step beyond any policy I've seen out of a western government in the last few decades. I doubt that is an inherently Chinese thing to do though and I'm sure they'll get lazy in the future - but this is a much better way of running policy than the usual guess-retry-guess-pivot approach that normal people seem to prefer.