![]() A global city is one that commands an international presence. Very simply put, global cities must impart values and ideas that impact the rest of the world. But before we begin to explore the dynamics of Singapore as a global city, let us look at what characteristics a city or nation needs to posses in order to earn the esteemed and much sought after title “global”. The recently released Ernst and Young ‘2011 Globalization Index‘ places the country in the third spot after surveying its openness to trade, capital movements, exchange of technology and ideas, labour movements and cultural integration for the period spanning 1995-2015. It is the third most globalized economy among 60 of the world’s largest economies. The small island state that has often been described as the little red dot is not so little after all.
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