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Focusing on ""what went right"" in Singapore's transformation from squalid colony to successful growth-oriented, capitalist state, this text questions the efficacy and nature of the role of law in the forty-year transformation, in the light of traditional and neo-traditional theories of law and development. It has not been the ""rule of law"" as such that has contributed to Singapore's development. Rather it has been law as the embodiment of ""mature policy"" of a goal-oriented, politically stable, educated, largely non-corrupt, communitarian and authoritarian state bureaucracy, which was grafted onto the remnants of the previous colonial administrative structures. Dr Carter examines Singapore's economic development in relation to labour law, land law, and intellectual property law, testing these against key aspects of law and development theories. Whilst analyses of the former two areas challenge the law and development convergence theory, the author argues that intellectual property law uncovers the transforming impact of global influences such as the WTO.;As such, the book provides a novel and balanced account for the student of law and economic development.
