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Self-Organization and Mobility Deprivation of Poor Workers in Hong Kong and Singapore

Part of the book series: Quality of Life in Asia ((QLAS,volume 18))

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Policies are important structural factors that determine travelling, income, living locations, and quality of life. In this book, the self-organization approach is used to explain the travel behaviours that are influenced by the interactions between policies and individual actions in Hong Kong and Singapore. To promote economic growth, the Singapore and Hong Kong governments have to keep production costs low and have stable social environments. Singapore adopts a direct intervening policy, while Hong Kong adopts a laissez-faire policy. Some policies that interact with individual actions produce poverty and commuting problems. The study draws data from the 2011 Hong Kong TCS and 2020 Singapore Population Census to investigate travel patterns that are influenced by the abovementioned policies. Fair governance and principles of justice are introduced, and the self-organization approach stresses that since people want fair governance, the policies that produce commuting problems and poverty have to be amended to keep in line with fairness being the major attribute in governing the two cities.

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Cho-Yam Lau, J. (2023). Introduction. In: Self-Organization and Mobility Deprivation of Poor Workers in Hong Kong and Singapore. Quality of Life in Asia, vol 18. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7265-4_1

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