The Role Of The Singapore Government To Enhance The International Competitiveness

As it came to the 1900s, especially after the Cold War, international competitions centering on the economy have become increasingly severe, which has created a dynamic community. Countries have been striving for dominating status in the 21st century, and have realized that it is of great significance to know others as well as themselves. Therefore, their concern on international competitiveness has never been greater as it is today. In the meantime, rapid development of economic globalization has absorbed more and more national countries into the global net whose basis is on international division of labor, ushering in an era of international competitions regardless of boarders. Faced with the insurgent globalization waves, only by constantly enhancing their own international competitiveness can every national country ensure the sustained increase in their own profits and long-term prosperity of overall national strength.Now that international competitiveness has made the decisive factor of the economic development in the future, then what can enhance the power? Or what will be the main drive to enhance it? There is no shirking the responsibility of the government. The most authoritative research institute on international competition-Switzerland Lausanne International Management Development Institute, supports that government efficiency is a must to enhance the power and sometimes even decisive. Whether the government function is proper plays an important role in international competitiveness. Herein, many governments have already attached great importance to the study on international competitiveness and taken various effective measures to strengthen their own national power.This paper is to carry through specific analysis on the case of Singapore and solve the problem in search of the relationship between the government and the international competitiveness. As a little "island" country scarce in resources, what on earth are the factors that cause the rapid economic growing up of Singapore? The facts prove high efficient, honest and upright government with strict law plays a decisive role.Singapore government is known as "strong government". A set of unique and characteristic government system and highly efficient official administrative system has been established during the long-term process of development and has provided powerful regulation guarantee for the policy efficiency of the government. The Singapore government implements the capital liberal competition system, which emphasize the government's function on economy by combining skillfully thegovernment's intervention into the economic life with free market economy. It resorts to the "invisible hand" of the market mechanism to carry through spontaneous adjustment of the economic activity. Meanwhile, it makes the most of the "visible hand" of the government administrative function so as to ensure the harmonious and rapid development of social economy and make the international competitiveness remain invincible.At the same time, the government has taken powerful macro control policies which have contributed to the enhancement of every element of international competitiveness (Infrastructure, Domestic Economic Strength, Financial system, Science and Technology, Enterprise Administration, Country qualification, Internationalization).The analysis proves the high efficient, honest and upright government with strict law plays makes the basic drive of Singaporean international competitiveness listing world top. The system factor is in the final analysis to decide on the Singaporean national power-perfect combination of the capital system and the government intervention. Meanwhile, the government fully makes known the situation of its country, pays attention to the changes and development of international environment, exert the advantage of its international competition, brings out the advantage and avoid the disadvantage and walks out a road adapting to its economic development and the enhancement of national power, which is profitable to other count...