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Paul Bentham

Hong Kong's human battery hens: Claustrophobic images show how slum families squeeze th... - 1 views

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    Daily article from the UK on Hong Kong cage homes.
pete sims

Hong Kong government sets first poverty line - Channel NewsAsia - 0 views

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  • 1.31 million people or 19.6 per cent of the city's population are now classified as poor

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  • he Hong Kong government recently set its first threshold to define poverty in the territory.
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    "The government-appointed Commission on Poverty has set Hong Kong's first poverty line at half of the median monthly household income"
Mark Roper

BBC News - Is Hong Kong really the world's freest economy? - 1 views

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  • Hong Kong has been ranked as the world's freest economy for the past 18 years, a title bestowed on it by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank.
  • Hong Kong's free-market credentials have long masked a more complicated picture than its model economy status suggests
  • the introduction of a minimum wage
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  • gross domestic product per head is high at $32,000
  • disparity between rich and poor is wide
  • More than half of the population earn less than HK$11,000 ($1,400; £920) a month and household incomes have barely increased over the past 10 years despite a booming economy
  • government provides public housing to about 50% of the population.
  • The Hong Kong government is also directly involved in other, sometimes surprising, areas of the economy.
  • Disneyland
  • major shareholder in MTR Corp
  • government relies on land sales for revenue
  • July last year, 200,000 people marched to voice their dissatisfaction over the widening gap between rich and poor and the high property prices.
  • Welfare spending has doubled since 1997
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