- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
-
1 The Panama Syndrome and the Origins of Deep Contradictions -
2 Contradictions in the Policy Environment -
3 Growing as a Part of China: A Historical Perspective -
4 External Shocks and Price Stability under the Linked Rate -
5 Why the Present Budget Policy Is Still the Most Sensible -
6 Looming Population Challenges -
7 Economic Competition and Structural Change -
8 Global Economic Integration and the Distribution of Housing Wealth -
9 Diversity and Occasional Anarchy: The Key to a Great City -
10 Cities, Human Capital, and Economic Development -
11 On the Creative and Innovative Economy -
12 Core Values, Functional Constituencies, and the Democratic Principle -
13 Simple Ideas in Political Economy -
14 Taxation, Regulation, and the Rational Politician -
15 Why Is Housing So Expensive? -
16 Education for Equality and Growth -
17 On Public Health Care Finances -
18 Mandatory Provident Fund Needs Reform -
19 Can We Afford Old Age Social Security? -
20 Economic Consequences of Universal Old Age Social Pensions -
21 How Can We Get Out of the Housing Quandary? -
22 Why Reforming Subsidized Housing Makes Sense - About the Author
Looming Population Challenges
Looming Population Challenges
- Chapter:
- (p.67) 6 Looming Population Challenges
- Source:
- Diversity and Occasional Anarchy
- Author(s):
Yue Chim Richard Wong
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
It is said that Hong Kong has inherited conflicting legacies from Sir John Cowperthwaite and Sir Philip Haddon-Cave's economic policy and Governor Sir Murray Maclehose's socio-political policy framework. The former puts emphasis on a limited government and a competitive free market while the latter underscores an interventionist government and a social welfare state. One of the main realms where the clash between these two legacies manifests itself is in population issues. The housing, education, health care, retirement protection and demographic policies should squarely focus on Hong Kong's population challenges. Nevertheless, the government's response thus far has merely been a slow one, and the patch-up measures have not managed to deal with the deep-rooted conflict between the twin legacies.
Keywords: Limited government, Interventionist government, Conflicting legacies, Population challenges, China, Hong Kong, Economy, Policies, Cowperthwaite, Haddon-Cave, Maclehose
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
-
1 The Panama Syndrome and the Origins of Deep Contradictions -
2 Contradictions in the Policy Environment -
3 Growing as a Part of China: A Historical Perspective -
4 External Shocks and Price Stability under the Linked Rate -
5 Why the Present Budget Policy Is Still the Most Sensible -
6 Looming Population Challenges -
7 Economic Competition and Structural Change -
8 Global Economic Integration and the Distribution of Housing Wealth -
9 Diversity and Occasional Anarchy: The Key to a Great City -
10 Cities, Human Capital, and Economic Development -
11 On the Creative and Innovative Economy -
12 Core Values, Functional Constituencies, and the Democratic Principle -
13 Simple Ideas in Political Economy -
14 Taxation, Regulation, and the Rational Politician -
15 Why Is Housing So Expensive? -
16 Education for Equality and Growth -
17 On Public Health Care Finances -
18 Mandatory Provident Fund Needs Reform -
19 Can We Afford Old Age Social Security? -
20 Economic Consequences of Universal Old Age Social Pensions -
21 How Can We Get Out of the Housing Quandary? -
22 Why Reforming Subsidized Housing Makes Sense - About the Author
