GOH KENG SWEE

ABOUT GOH KENG SWEE

NAME: GOH KENG SWEE BORN:OCTOBER 6, 1918 DIED: MAY 14,2010 EDUCATION: LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

ACHIEVEMENT: HE TOOK MOST PUBLIC POLICY IN SINGAPORE. - ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT BOARD - DEVELOPMENT BANK OF SINGAPORE - JURONG INDUSTRIAL ESTATE

Goh Keng Swee , Contribution to singapore

MINISTER OF FINANCE DR GOH KENG SWEE DONATING BLOOD AT BLOOD TRANSFUSION UNIT, SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL, DURING THE BLOOD DONATION CAMPAIGN .

WHY SHOULD GOH KENG SWEE BE REMEMBER AS A SINGAPORE HISTORIAN?

Politics He was anti-colonial in his outlook during the pre-independence years. He founded the Malayan Forum in 1949 - a political discussion group comprising Malayan and Singaporean students in London. The group met regularly to rally support for the decolonisation of and independence for Malaya and Singapore. It was through the Forum that he met Toh Chin Chye and Lee Kuan Yew. He entered politics and he was elected as MP for Kreta Ayer on 30 May 1959. He was its MP till his retirement from politics in Dec 1984. Economic He spearheaded many of the most impressive public policy achievements in Singapore: Economic Development Board (EDB), the Development Bank of Singapore (DBS), the Jurong Industrial Estate. His thoughts on economic growth contrasted sharply with the vast majority of his counterparts in other Third World governments. His decidedly conservative approach to public finance stands out. Together with Lee Kuan Yew in 1965, they decided that Singapore's central bank, Monetary Authority of Singapore will not have currency issuing power. Singapore remained one of few independent states to issue currency under a currency board until 2003. He was instrumental in the founding of Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). He "undertook major restructuring of MAS' key functions - monetary policy, reserve management, and supervision and development of the financial sector". Defence

WHY SHOULD GOH KENG SWEE BE REMEMBER AS A SINGAPORE HISTORIAN?

He played a key role in setting up the local defence technology section, beginning with the establishment of Chartered Industries of Singapore in 1967. This became a model for the mushrooming of other state-owned enterprises or government-linked companies and a basis for the latter evolution of Singapore Technologies as a multinational company. Education His Goh Report published in 1979 led to a major overhaul of primary and secondary schooling in Singapore. Streaming was introduced. Its recommendations underpin much of the Singapore school curriculum even today. The report's message - education is the key to economic development and that the education system should be sufficiently flexible to accommodate, reflect and reinforce development needs. China He was one of the few analysts during the 1960s to have projected the possibility of China's economic rise by the 1990s. China, under Deng Xiaoping asked him to serve as economic adviser on the development of China's coastal regions Others He served as chairman of the Institute of East Asian Philosophies, which was formed in 1983 and had spearheaded the Singapore government's promotion of Confucianism. In 1990, when the institute was renamed as Institute of East Asian Political Economy (IEAPE). Dr Goh continued to serve as the chairman. IEAPE served as a government think-tank on contemporary China as information on China at that point was limited.

Through his initiative, Jurong Bird Park and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra were set up.

GOH KENG SWEE ACHIEVEMENTS

In 1966, Goh was made an Honorary Fellow of the LSE. In 1972 he was the recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for

Government Services, which is often regarded as Asia's Nobel Prize. It is awarded to people who have demonstrated integrity in government, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society. The same year, the Philippine Government conferred upon him the Order of Sikatuna, which is given to diplomats, officials and nationals of foreign states who have rendered conspicuous services in fostering, developing and strengthening relations between their country and the Philippines.

Following his retirement from politics, in 1985 Goh was awarded the Darjah Utama Temasek (Order of Temasek), First Class,

Singapore's highest civilian honour. He was also presented with the LSE's Distinguished Alumnus Award on 21 January 1989, and made the first Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Development Board Society in 1991

GOH KENG SWEE ( YOUNG )

MINISTER OF FINANCE DR GOH KENG SWEE (SEATED FOURTH FROM LEFT) AT OPENING OF INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH UNIT AT SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC

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