Download or read book Social Security Policy in Hong Kong written by Chak Kwan Chan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Security Policy in Hong Kong: From British Colony to Special Administrative Region of China, by Chak Kwan Chan, is the first book which systematically examines Hong Kong's social security policies across a period of 170 years. In particular, Chan analyses how Hong Kong, the world's freest economy, has maintained its small government by manipulating Chinese welfare ideologies.
Download or read book Social Security Policy in Hong Kong written by Chak Kwan Chan and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than four decades, free market economists and right-wing politicians have touted Hong Kong as a model of capitalism and a market economy success story. Social Security Policy in Hong Kong: From British Colony to Special Administrative Region of China, by Chak Kwan Chan, argues that Hong Kong's capitalism is not the result of democratic choice but the consequence of an administrative-led polity that has had suppressed democracy, limited trade unions' activities, and manipulated traditional Chinese welfare ideologies to maintain a small government. Social Security Policy in Hong Kong is the first book that systematically analyzes the dynamic relationships between Hong Kong's polity, Chinese welfare ideologies, and social security provisions from British colonial rule to China's special administrative region.
Download or read book Aims and Policy for Social Welfare in Hong Kong written by Hong Kong. Legislative Council and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Policy in Hong Kong written by Paul Wilding and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical analysis of social policy in Hong Kong. An introductory chapter provides background information on the economic, social and political structure of the region. Subsequent chapters cover a variety of issues including health, housing and education. The final chapter constructs a balance sheet of successes and failures.
Download or read book Aims and Policy for Social Welfare in Hong Kong written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Security Reform Options For China written by David F Gates and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1999-12-29 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first-ever book to provide a comprehensive analysis of Chinese social security reforms with a variety of views. It addresses issues such as what kind of social security system China should establish, how this system should be managed and financed, and how the transition from the old system to the new system can best be accomplished. The authors of the papers in this book include internationally renowned Chinese and Western social security experts (such as Martin Feldstein and Henry Aaron), Chinese policy makers, and scholars who have worked on Chinese social security for years.
Download or read book Lone Mothers Social Security and the Family in Hong Kong written by Lai Ching Leung and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first study with feminist analysis on lone mothers’ economic dependency in Hong Kong. The implications of this study are considerable; it challenges both conventional thinking about families and the political and academic debates about social policy. This book sets out to examine the relationship between social security benefits and lone mothers’ labour supply in Hong Kong. Two particular aspects of the labour supply behaviour of lone mothers are explored: firstly, the possible effect of social security on lone mothers’ employment: and secondly, the knowledge and perception of social security benefits in the decision making processes of lone mothers in relation to taking up paid work. Evidence from this study suggests that there are three structural barriers which hinder lone mothers from taking up paid employment outside their family; inadequate support for child care, the low level of Earnings Disregard Policy which discourages lone mothers living on benefit from being self-reliant and thirdly, the low wages that lone mothers earn in the labour market.
Download or read book A Report written by Hongkong. Inter-departmental Working Party to Consider Certain Aspects of Social Security and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Implementation of the Policy of Comprehensive Social Security Assistance written by Sui-Yip Tong and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "The Implementation of the Policy of Comprehensive Social Security Assistance" by Sui-yip, Tong, 唐瑞葉, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. DOI: 10.5353/th_b3644971 Subjects: Welfare fraud - China - Hong Kong Social security - Government policy - China - Hong Kong
Download or read book A Review of Benefits for the Elderly and a Policy for the Provisions of Social Security and Retirement Benefits in Hong Kong written by Business and Professionals Federation of Hong Kong and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Retirement Protection written by Francis T. Lui and published by Hong Kong Economic Policy Stud. This book was released on 1998 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the economic consequences of Hong Kong's retirement boom? What sort of retirement plans are viable and acceptable to employers, employees and the government? Drawing on the experience with social security systems in many countries, this book evaluates Hong Kong's pay-as-you-go (PAYG) proposal, Singapore's central provident fund (CPF) scheme, and the mandatory provident fund (MPF) plan.
Download or read book Social Welfare in Hong Kong written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adjudicating Social Welfare Rights in Hong Kong written by Karen Kong and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter III of the Basic Law contains provisions that protect the fundamental rights of residents in Hong Kong. They include both civil-political rights and socio-economic rights. Since the inception of the Basic Law in 1997, our court was not short of opportunities to tackle difficult issues concerning civil and political rights, and it has been acclaimed by commentators as liberal in the protection of civil liberties in Hong Kong. In relation to socio-economic rights, the common conception that they were 'aspirational' and 'non-justiciable' rights had made them a modest ground of progression until recent years. The difficulty is increased by the strong judicial attitude that the court should not be used as a forum to discuss socio-economic policies. Many of the issues concerning socio-economic rights are more comfortably dealt with by the court when they are posed in terms of traditional civil political rights, e.g. the right to equality before the law under Art 25 of the Basic Law. Our court has in two recent cases adjudicated on the constitutional protection of social welfare rights in Hong Kong. Both cases concerned the new residence requirements for Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) scheme effective from 1 January 2004. The two cases demonstrated the court's approach in adjudicating cases that concern social and economic policies, particularly when the decisions affect the distribution of scarce public expenditure. The intensity of review was at issue and the court's view of the justification provided by the government accounts for the difference in results of the two cases. It can be clearly seen that the court is highly influenced by the political and economic implications of their decisions. The author argues that the court's internal restraints on adjudicating socio-economic rights are misplaced, and that there is room for a more principled approach to deal with social rights, especially in relation to the decision making process by the government, while respecting the freedom by the democratic government to determine its own policies.
Download or read book Social Policy and Poverty in East Asia written by James Midgley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the role of social policy and particularly social security in addressing the ongoing challenge of poverty in East Asia despite the region’s spectacular experience of economic growth in decent decades. The East Asian miracle resulted over the last four decades in a transformation of the region’s traditional agrarian economies and significant increases in standards of living for many ordinary people. Even though it was given little attention, poverty has remained an ongoing problem. The problem became particularly evident however with the Asian financial crisis of 1997 when many low income and middle class workers became unemployed. As a result of this crisis, the need for effective social policies and social security programs were recognized. The idea that economic growth would solve the problem of poverty was increasingly challenged. Even in China today, where rapid growth has created new employment opportunities and the promise of prosperity for many, the government has recognized that the problem of poverty cannot be addressed only through economic growth but that comprehensive social policies must be formulated, and this includes the development of an effective security system.
Download or read book Social Policy Reform in Hong Kong and Shanghai A Tale of Two Cities written by Linda Wong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the richest cities in the world's most populous nation, Hong Kong and Shanghai have recently experienced dynamic growth spurred by more and better-managed capital. These cities also have social problems whose solutions will cost money. Their urban populations are aging. Health finance at the level these "First World" cities demand threatens to consume a large portion of the municipal budgets. Eldercare and social security are now less well covered by traditional Chinese families. Education has become more complex and public tuition, where it occurs, brings with it official plans for schools. Immigrants have flocked to Shanghai from inland China, and Hong Kong's border has become a protector of the former colony's high productivity jobs. Housing problems also have deeply affected both cities, albeit in somewhat different ways. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the similarities and differences between social policies in the two cities. Each chapter covers a different issue: health finance, housing, education, labor, poverty and social security, eldercare, and migration and competitiveness. The contributors explore pertinent developments in each city and analyze the similarities and differences between the two cities' approaches to social policies. They focus on policy reform and the interface between social policy and its environment. One main theme throughout the book is the extent to which spending for capital accumulation is in conflict with spending for social policies.
Download or read book Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond Volume 3 written by Jean-Michel Lafleur and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third and last open access volume in the series takes the perspective of non-EU countries on immigrant social protection. By focusing on 12 of the largest sending countries to the EU, the book tackles the issue of the multiple areas of sending state intervention towards migrant populations. Two “mirroring” chapters are dedicated to each of the 12 non-EU states analysed (Argentina, China, Ecuador, India, Lebanon, Morocco, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey). One chapter focuses on access to social benefits across five core policy areas (health care, unemployment, old-age pensions, family benefits, guaranteed minimum resources) by discussing the social protection policies that non-EU countries offer to national residents, non-national residents, and non-resident nationals. The second chapter examines the role of key actors (consulates, diaspora institutions and home country ministries and agencies) through which non-EU sending countries respond to the needs of nationals abroad. The volume additionally includes two chapters focusing on the peculiar case of the United Kingdom after the Brexit referendum. Overall, this volume contributes to ongoing debates on migration and the welfare state in Europe by showing how non-EU sending states continue to play a role in third country nationals’ ability to deal with social risks. As such this book is a valuable read to researchers, policy makers, government employees and NGO’s.
Download or read book Social Security in Global Perspective written by John E. Dixon and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1999-07-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and evaluates the social security systems in 172 countries.
