Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka . A theme of convergence is central to the narrative. Slaves were … Emancipation, black children continued to face many obstacles in acquiring education. In addition to their relative poverty and …

“Race†and racial categories play a significant role in everyday life and state organization in Singapore. While … article explores national narratives of race, culture and belonging as they have developed over time, used as a tool for the … recognition of “mixed raceâ€. It illustrates how state-led understandings of race and “mixed race†describe processes of both …

In Singapore, the public resale housing market is an active second-hand housing market, whereby previously subsidised … that have been identified in the international literature, the prices of public resale housing in Singapore are largely … degree public housing policies affected the price dynamics of public resale housing in Singapore during the 1990s. The …

Purpose – Singapore does not have a welfare State. Instead it has full employment, rapid growth, affordable education … and equality of opportunity. It also has the Housing Development Board and the Central Provident Fund. Public housing and … strategy. Design/methodology/approach – The paper collects evidence on housing and superannuation to establish the precise link …

We estimate the network externality of a public transit system by examining the effects of its expansion on the housing … market. Our results show that a major expansion of Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system increased the price of …. Evaluated at the mean housing price, the expansion increased the value of pre-connected apartments by at least S$386 million …