National governance is not merely administrative management. Citizen and business satisfaction should serve as the primary goal and benchmark for evaluating public governance capacity. In the current context, however, we must decisively move from traditional “state management” - focused on control, procedural compliance and administrative orders - to “modern state governance”, centered on streamlining, effectiveness and accountability. Beginning in 1962, South Korea implemented five-year economic plans focused on export-oriented industrialization, shifting from textiles to electronics and automobiles. Three lessons from Singapore, South Korea and Estonia are not universal formulas.

Source: VietNamNet News February 25, 2026 04:04 UTC