This selection of Mr Hon Sui Sen's -- who was Singapore's Minister of Finance from 1970 to 1983 -- speeches and writings is an invaluable record of the plans and ideas he initiated to deal with the complex and difficult global issues in the 1970s. The blueprint for policies which have become reality or are being pursued today in the 1990s, they attest to Mr Hon's foresight as an economic planner and underscore the growing importance of globalisation. This reissue features a new introduction.