A study which challenges the dominant understanding of Singapore as a case where "correct" policies have made rapid industrialization possible and which raises questions about the possibility and appropriateness of its emulation.

Acknowledgements - Abbreviations - Tables - Prefatory Notes - Preface - Theoretical Introduction - Pre-Industrial Singapore: General Structural Developments until 1959 - The Political Pre-Conditions - Export-Oriented Manufacturing - Second Industrial Revolution - Singapore's Ongoing Future as a NIC - Conclusions: Singapore and NIDL - Endnotes - Bibliography - Index