Also Singapore was not well in the 50s and 60s. It got full independence in 1965, and (from the speech of Lee Kuan Yew), erratic electricity, only half of the p

Also Singapore was not well in the 50s and 60s. It got full independence in 1965, and (from the speech of Lee Kuan Yew), erratic electricity, only half of the population access to sewage system. The economy picked up only afterwards.