The Singaporean welfare state system : with special reference to public housing and the CPF

• Main Author: Teo, Youyenn
• Other Authors: Aspalter, Christian
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science::Public administration::Asia::Singapore; Public policy; Welfare; Inequality
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/147650
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This chapter illuminates the ways in which the Singapore state’s approach toward public goods, despite its recent heavy rhetoric around ‘social inclusion’ and some moves toward expansion, maintains a limited sense of mutual obligations among citizens and instead institutionalizes individualism an...