Why is singapore not an oecd country

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This publication provides a detailed overview of the current macroprudential policy situation in Emerging Asian countries and explores how the macroprudential policy toolkit has evolved. The report discusses some of the most pressing challenges to financial stability, including the interaction of macroprudential policy with other policies. The tax-to-GDP ratio in Singapore is lower in relative to , driven by the decrease of individual income tax rates and corporate income tax rates.

Here's a chart from the report showing that taxes consume less than 14 percent of economic output in Singapore. Needless to say, there's nothing in the report to square the circle and justify the claim about the supposed link between higher taxes and economic development.

Nothing to explain why Singapore manages to be so rich with such a small burden of government. It's as if the bureaucrats hoped that nobody would notice that numbers in the study undermined their ideologically driven claim that tax burdens should climb in Asia.

Indeed, I wonder if Hong Kong was omitted from the study simply because that would have further undermined the OECD's preposterous assertion that higher taxes are a route to economic development. Having low taxes and a modest burden of government certainly is part of what can make a nation rich and successful, but the real goal should be to have a good mix of free markets and small government.

Singapore does that, ranking 2 in Economic Freedom of the World. Other Asian nations, by contrast, may have modest fiscal burdens, but the potential economic benefit is undermined by statist policies in areas such as trade, regulation, monetary policy, and property rights. This certainly helps to explain why countries such as Indonesia 79 , Malaysia 62 , and the Philippines 80 have much lower scores for overall economic liberty.

I'm not sure why the OECD would produce such sloppy research. If they simply wanted to create a false narrative, why didn't the bureaucrats omit Singapore and simply hope nobody knew the numbers from that country or the historical numbers for North America and Western Europe? My suspicion is that the senior political types at the OECD wanted to produce a study that would be helpful for certain politicians in the region i.

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