Lee Kuan Yew (Keefe)

A golden age can be simplified to simpler terms where it can be understood as a period of time where a certain independent country reaches its peak of economy and has a great development. Behind every successful country there is a great leader, where for Singapore, the leader would be, Mr Lee Kuan Yew.

Singapore can be its own version of a golden age as well, when Singapore was separated, it was nothing but a small fishing village. But in a short matter of years, Singapore being a third world country in the past, jumped the second world country status and achieved the first world status, arguably under the leadership of Mr Lee Kuan Yew.

Even though many countries stated that they would surpass Singapore in terms of their national funds, or economy. For example Malaysia said that they would surpass Singapore by 2020, yet they are at a negative number of -400+billion, where Singapore has a positive number of a few hundred billion. Most likely, Malaysia would not be able to surpass Singapore in a matter of 5 short years, and this just shows how much Singapore has developed under arguably Mr Lee Kuan Yew's leadership.