Singapore’s main competitor?

Whenever I think about Singapore’s future and its competitiveness, the name of a potential challenger keeps coming up: Dubai. I’ve mentioned this on a number of occasions, so I’ll add in a link to a long and insightful article from the New Left Review: Fear and Money in Dubai. It gives a detailed account of Dubai’s strategic direction, and looks at some of the methods used to achieve it – and some of the consequences. Singapore gets mentioned a few times. Hmm, I wonder what an article with the title Fear and Money in Singapore would say?