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Health Care Delivery and Financing
Hong Kong is ageing fast and the pressure to improve health care is mounting. Should taxes be raised or social services be cut? Should the public buy more health insurance? Using …
Tourism and the Hong Kong Economy
This book examines Singapore's strategy on tourism and comes up with five sets of recommendations for Hong Kong having an integrated mindset in developing tourism, removing …
Hong Kong as an International Financial Centre
This book analyzes the role of Hong Kong as a prominent financial centre. Issues such as taxonomy of financial centres, reasons for Hong Kong's past success, competition from other …
Labour Market in a Dynamic Economy
Devoid of natural resources, Hong Kong has weathered many internal and external shocks and yet emerged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world. This success is …
Telecom Policy and Digital Convergence
Digitalization of information is eroding old boundaries between broadcasting, postal systems, telecommunications, publishing, and banking. Such a 'Digital convergence' deeply …
Privatizing Water and Sewage Services
How far should the Hong Kong government privatize its public utilities? After examining the British and the American experience in privatizing public utilities, and after a review …
Immigration and the Economy of Hong Kong
Since 1995, immigration has been adding more people to the population of Hong Kong than natural increase each year. Is there any adverse economic impact of immigration on Hong …
Institutional Development of the Insurance Industry
This book is an economic and institutional analysis based on transaction cost theories, using official data and survey results. Policy issues discussed are: setting commission …
On Privatizing Public Housing
More than half of the people of Hong Kong live in heavily subsidized public housing and many are still waiting to be accommodated. This study shows that, unfortunately, the public …
Retirement Protection
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 …