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Housing Policy, Wellbeing and Social Development in Asia

Author : Rebecca Lai-Har Chiu

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Page : 0 pages

File Size : 16,85 MB

Release : 2018

Category : Housing policy

ISBN : 9781138208186

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Introduction: conceptual contexts / Rebecca L.H. Chiu -- Housing policy and urban development in China : the public housing perspective / Jie Chen -- The security-based public housing policy of Hong Kong : a social development interpretation / Rebecca L.H. Chiu, Mandy H.M. Lau and Bokyong Seo -- Housing in Japan's post-growth society / Yosuke Hirayama and Misa Izuhara -- Housing policy challenges and social development in Korea / Seong-Kyu Ha -- Changes in housing policy, housing wellbeing and housing justice in Taiwan / Chin-Oh Chang and Bor-Ming Hsieh -- No one left homeless : universal provision of housing in Singapore / Chua Beng Huat and Meisen Wong -- Housing policy in Malaysia : bridging the affordability gap for medium-income households / Wan Nor Azriyati Wan Abd Aziz, Noor Rosly Hanif, Ainoriza Mohd. Aini and Mahazril Aini Yaacob -- The unfinished agenda : national housing programmes and policy shifts in India / Urmi Sengupta -- Housing affordability problems of the middle-income groups in Dhaka, Bangladesh : a policy environment analysis / Sadeque Md. Zaber Chowdhury -- Vietnam's post-reform housing policies : social rhetoric, market imperatives and informality / Hoai Anh Tran and Ngai Ming Yip -- Housing segmentation and diverging outcomes in housing wellbeing in Bangkok, Thailand / Thammarat Marohabutr -- Housing policy and social development in Indonesia / Connie Susilawati -- Conclusion : Asian housing policies in the social development contexts / Rebecca L.H. Chiu



Housing Policy, Wellbeing and Social Development in Asia

Author : Rebecca Lai Har Chiu

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 308 pages

File Size : 32,11 MB

Release : 2018-05-11

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1315460033

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This book investigates how housing policy changes in Asia since the late 1990s have impacted on housing affordability, security, livability, culture and social development. Using case study examples from countries/cities including China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam, the contributors contextualize housing policy development in terms of both global and local socio-economic and political changes. They then investigate how policy changes have shaped and re-shaped the housing wellbeing of the local people and the social development within these places, which they argue should constitute the core purpose of housing policy. This book will open up a new dimension for understanding housing and social development in Asia and a new conceptual perspective with which to examine housing which, by nature, is culture-sensitive and people-oriented. It will be of interest to students, scholars and professionals in the areas of housing studies, urban and social development and the public and social policy of Asia.



Social Policy in East and Southeast Asia

Author : M. Ramesh

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 274 pages

File Size : 31,10 MB

Release : 2004-08-02

Category : History

ISBN : 1134320140

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Social Policy in East and South East Asia provides the first systematic comparison of the policy sectors of income maintenance, health, housing and education in Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. It focuses particularly on the provision and financing arrangements of these four Asian newly industrialized economies and their outcomes in terms of adequacy, efficiency and equity, drawing on extensive primary research carried out by the author. Locating the importance of Asian social policies in the wake of the recent financial crisis in the region, this work provides a comprehensive analysis of the different types of welfare state in contemporary Asia.



Housing Policy and Practice in Asia

Author : Sŏng-gyu Ha

Publisher : Other

Page : 216 pages

File Size : 18,66 MB

Release : 1987

Category : Housing policy

ISBN :

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Provides an overview of housing policy and practice in Asia, comparing and contrasting the experience of a number of different countries.



Housing East Asia

Author : J. Doling

Publisher : Springer

Page : 277 pages

File Size : 25,49 MB

Release : 2014-01-21

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1137314524

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Housing policy has been central to the economic success stories of the major East Asian economies as well as a pillar of social and welfare provision. This book explores not only the development of their distinctive approach, but also the challenges posed in recent years, and currently, by rapid socio-economic and demographic change.



International Housing Market Experience and Implications for China

Author : Rebecca L. H. Chiu

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 427 pages

File Size : 37,73 MB

Release : 2019-03-18

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0429796161

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Recent rapid housing market expansion in China is presenting new challenges for policy makers, planners, business people, and citizens. Now that housing in middle-income China is driven by consumer choices and is no longer dominated by state policy decisions, housing policy issues in Chinese cities are becoming increasingly similar to those encountered in other global housing markets. With soaring prices and imbalances in housing supply favoring high income groups and housing demand driven by rising inequality in household incomes, many middle and lower-income households face worsening choices in terms of the quality and location of their housing as well as greater financial difficulties, which together can have negative implications for standards of public health. This book examines the impact of these changes on the general population, as well as on aspiring homeowners and developers. The contributors look at the effect on the widening of wealth gaps, slower economic growth, and threats to political and social stability. Though focusing on China, the editors also present discussions of specific policy design challenges encountered in Australia, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, the Nordic countries, Singapore, Taiwan, the UK, and the US. This book would be of interest to housing policy makers, as well as academics who are studying the social and political effects of the Chinese housing market.



Neoliberal Urbanism, Contested Cities and Housing in Asia

Author : Yi-Ling Chen

Publisher : Springer

Page : 216 pages

File Size : 34,59 MB

Release : 2019-04-23

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1137550155

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Considering Asian cities ranging from Taipei, Hong Kong and Bangkok to Hanoi, Nanjing and Seoul, this collection discusses the socio-political processes of how neoliberalization entwines with local political economies and legacies of ‘developmental’ or ‘socialist’ statism to produce urban contestations centered on housing. The book takes housing as a key entry point, given its prime position in the making of social and economic policies as well as the political legitimacy of Asian states. It examines urban policies related to housing in Asian economies in order to explore their continuing alterations and mutations, as they come into conflict and coalesce with neoliberal policies. In discussing the experience of each city, it takes into consideration the variegated relations between the state, the market and the society, and explores how the global pressure of neoliberalization has manifested in each country and has influenced the shaping of national housing questions.



Social Development in Asia

Author : Kwong-leung Tang

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 206 pages

File Size : 22,7 MB

Release : 2012-12-06

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9401140286

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Most Asian countries have shown a strong commitment to rapid economic development. Economists have argued that the fruits from economic development will be spread equitably throughout the population. In the absence of a strong tradition of social rights, social development in Asia has long been taken for granted. This collection documents social development in the Asian countries of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand and India and concludes that social development has lagged behind economic development. This has given rise to `distorted development' in many countries. Serious development problems of poverty and inequalities have lingered even in these economically advanced countries of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore. These problems have been exacerbated in the wake of the Asian economic crisis. In order to harmonize social development with economic growth, Asian states ought to be more proactive in their development agendas. As a text on social development in Asia, this book is primarily intended for practitioners and students of social work, social administration, and social policy. It is also relevant for students and practitioners of sociology, economics, and public policy.



Exporting Urban Korea?

Author : Se Hoon Park

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 223 pages

File Size : 30,51 MB

Release : 2020-12-23

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 100029272X

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A detailed examination of the “Korean development model” from its urban dimension, evaluating its sociopolitical contexts and implications for international development cooperation. There is an increasing tendency to use the development experience of Asian countries as a reference point for other countries in the Global South. Korea’s condensed urbanization and industrialization, accompanied by the expansion of new cities and industrial complexes across the country, have become one such model, even if the fruits of such development may not have been equitably shared across geographies and generations. The chapters in this book critically reassess the Korean urban development experience from regional policy to new town development, demonstrating how these policy experiences were deeply rooted in Korea’s socioeconomic environment and discussing what can be learned from them when applying them in other developmental contexts. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers in the field of urban studies and developmental studies in general, and in Korea’s (urban) development experience in particular. Chapters 1, 2, 4, and 12 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.



Social Policy and Change in East Asia

Author : James Lee

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 219 pages

File Size : 13,72 MB

Release : 2013-12-11

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0739174576

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Social Policy and Change in East Asia is a collection of essays from a group of indigenous East Asian social policy researchers who met bi-annually to discuss social development issues. The book’s focus is the policy responses of respective East Asian government since the 2008 financial tsunami struck the region. Together, the essays in Social Policy and Change in East Asia argue that traditional social policy approach has failed to account for the problem of economic volatility and to devise policy measures that can promote long-term stability. Avoiding a static and Eurocentric approach, the authors of this book seek to unravel the meaning of the social development approach in various policy contexts. This book supports a dynamic understanding of social policy formulation that does not neglect the problem of economic turbulence in policy and planning.