Housing and Social Development: Linking Social and Economic Aspects of Development through Housing Delivery

Singapore: Social Development, Housing and the Central Provident Fund

In the last two decades, the European welfare states have been criticised for failing to address problems of unemployment and poverty. It is also claimed that Western welfare statism is too expensive, and that it has harmed economic development (Feldstein, 1974; Mishra, 1984, 1990; Pierson, 1995; Buti, Franco & Pench, 1999). In many industrial countries, government programmes have been trimmed ...

Cultural Development and Social Development in Iran

Cultural Development and Social Development in Iran

Social Composition, Social Conflict, and Economic Development

This paper investigates how people subdivided in social groups behave in an economy without property rights. Facing a linear production technology groups follow Markovian strategies for consumption and investment. Additionally, they may spend effort in an appropriation contest. For a symmetric society I show that conflict prevents investment and growth. In a society at peace economic growth may...

Spatial Analysis on Future Housing Markets: Economic Development and Housing Implications

A coupled projection method combining formal modelling and other statistical techniques was developed to delineate the relationship between economic and social drivers for net new housing allocations. Using the example of employment growth in Tyne and Wear, UK, until 2016, the empirical analysis yields housing projections at the macro- and microspatial levels (e.g., region to subregion to elect...