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Impacts of Government Policies and Individual Decisions on the Commuting of Poor Workers in Singapore

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

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Singapore is considered to have an authoritarian government, which imposes strict policies with a traditional Confucian culture to ensure the survival and economic growth of the city-state. The self-organization approach explains the commuting problems and income inequality produced by the policies and individual actions of poor workers. These policies include land acquisition, land sales, public housing, the CPF system, and the suburbanization of poverty. Based on data drawn from the 2020 Singapore Population Census, the policies have been found to cause commuting problems and exclude low-income Singaporeans from accessing mainstream activities of society. Commuting problems produce an imbalanced social environment. Since people want fair governance, implementing fair governance is the main motivation for the Singapore government to amend policies to return the social system to a balanced state and improve the commuting of the poor.

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Cho-Yam Lau, J. (2023). Impacts of Government Policies and Individual Decisions on the Commuting of Poor Workers in Singapore. 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_3

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