promoting universal pensions in Hong Kong
Hong Kong newspapers are at last publishing well-written op-ed columns in support of universal pensions. The following column is one of the best I have seen. The much longer, full column can be...
View ArticleHong Kong march for universal pensions
Approximately 4,000 protesters marched in Hong Kong on New Year’s Day against government’s wasteful spending and failure to implement a universal age pension in the territory. Thousands of protesters...
View ArticleBeijing’s AIIB will lend in US dollars
Even though the USA is not a member, the new China-led development bank will lend only in US dollars. The China-led Asia Infrastructure Investment bank has ruled out lending in currencies other than...
View Articleretired Hong Kong politician supports a universal pension
Former University of Hong Kong Council Chairperson Edward Leong Che-hung has said that he was disappointed with the policy address given by the Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying last Wednesday. …. Leong,...
View Articledelays in Hong Kong pension reform
Two months ago the government of Hong Kong initiated a six-month consultation process on a retirement income report that it received sixteen months earlier, in August 2014. The Report, commission by...
View ArticleAIIB and the rise of China
A law professor at Ohio State University argues that the Chinese-backed Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) threatens US dominance of sovereign debt. A key take-away point is “China’s doctrine...
View ArticleHong Kong government snubs universal pensions
It is clear that universal pensions are not on the agenda of the government of Hong Kong, even though they were recommended in the Chow Report commissioned by government more than two years ago. The...
View Articleon the Hong Kong government’s rejection of universal pensions
Chief Secretary Carrie Lam delivered a speech two months ago that effectively “killed any hope for a universal pension”. Michael Littlewood, from the University of Auckland’s Retirement Policy and...
View Articleold age poverty in Hong Kong
This is an excellent 25-minute documentary film on pensions, poverty and old age in Hong Kong. Office workers rush past, oblivious to the army of grey-haired residents toiling in the shadows of Hong...
View Articleuniversal pensions and Hong Kong values
Some Hong Kong businessmen are very mean-spirited. Moreover, they fail to understand that means-tested benefits are ‘welfare’, whereas universal benefits are not. Examples of universal benefits in Hong...
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