For Yew, who shared his insights with an attentive and admiring audience at an Indo-Singaporean event in the Capital on Wednesday, India is not quite in the same league as China. He believes China has a considerable headstart in the development game that is hard for India to overtake or even match."Both can grow... But India's GDP is half that of China's. It's growth does not exceed that of China's," he said, pointing out various opinion-makers believe that the two Asian neighbours should not be clubbed together at all any longer.
When asked why he thought South Asia lagged behind East Asia in living standards and economic development, he pointed to the Confucian culture.
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