🔒 Closed Lee Kuan Yew said about the Philippines

[meowzkingz]

Lee Kuan Yew said about the Philippines

In November 1992, I visited [Fidel Ramos]. In a speech to the 18th Philippine Business Conference, I said, 'I do not believe democracy necessarily leads to development. I believe what a country needs to develop is discipline more than democracy.

I felt sorry for the Philippines' apparent brain drain.

Something had gone seriously wrong. Millions of Filipino men and women had to leave their country for jobs abroad beneath their level of education.
Filipino professionals whom we recruited to work in Singapore are as good as our.

 

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