I have just returned from Singapore, where I attended the Annual Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank Group, and I would like to share with you the positive impressions from my stay in a city strewn with a multitude of billboards assuring visitors that they will be greeted by “4 million smiling faces of Singaporeans.“ And it really was so.
The difference between Singapore and Serbia lies not only in the fact that their per capita GDP is USD 30,000 and ours only USD 3,500, but also in the fact that the 7.5 million of our citizens do not only show very little optimism, if any, but some of them still live in the past.