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September | 2015 | Well-being in Hong Kong
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September 2015

How Hong Kong’s ageing population is making it more challenging to help the city’s poor

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Paul Yip & Jacky Wong

The government’s summit next month on alleviating poverty is an important opportunity to take stock and identify ways to work for the betterment of the community. We need to have an accurate understanding of the situation in formulating focused measures to alleviate poverty.

A person is defined as poor if his/her household income is below the poverty line, which is set at half the median household income in Hong Kong. It is a relative measure rather than an absolute one; there is always going to be a certain proportion of the population below that level. Hence the rate itself may not be able to accurately describe the change in the poverty situation in Hong Kong.

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香港旅遊業出路—高值低量

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剛於8月發表的最新研究顯示,香港遊客的增長率由2010年的22%持續下跌至2014年的12%;過夜旅客人數比去年下跌2%;2015年首兩季酒店入住率和零售業總收入,更分別下調8.7%和1.6%。

面對遊客量明顯下滑,特區政府極為緊張,還多次表示憂慮。不過,與其無止境渴求大量旅客,政府更應放遠目光,藉此機會把香港的旅遊業模式轉化為可持續發展的新模式,有量度地滿足經濟之餘,也不會破壞市民的生活。

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Trams are a vital transport link for Hong Kong’s disadvantaged

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Paul Yip & Sha Feng

Paul Yip and Sha Feng say scrapping this low-cost and convenient mode of transport would hit some Hong Kong people hard, and planners should care about more than just congestion

The proposal to remove tram services between Central and Admiralty to ease congestion has aroused much discussion in the community. It is in fact much more than just a transport issue. A study of transport and social exclusion in the UK in 2003, for example, showed that transport is intrinsically linked to many social policy issues, such as unemployment, public health, the environment, education and urban development.

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