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Social security and social welfare: a ‘new look’ from Hong Kong

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

T. S. Heppell
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Many things are associated with Hong Kong, but innovation in social security and social welfare is not one of them. Yet recent developments in Hong Kong are perhaps of more than local interest alone, not simply because Hong Kong has the advantage of virtually starting from scratch in developing social security but also because it has, by force of circumstance as well by inclination, had to look for what have been called ‘Hong Kong solutions for Hong Kong problems’. The results of this process might be regarded, if not as models to be copied, at least as alternative approaches to be borne in mind when other countries review the possible choices of development in social security open to them.

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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , July 1973 , pp. 225 - 238
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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References

1 Social Welfare in Hong Kong: The Way Ahead, October 1972.Google Scholar

2 Governor's Address to the Legislative Council, 1 October 1970.

3 Op. tit.

4 It is hoped to consider the vulnerable group approach, and emergency relief, in a subsequent paper.

5 It is hoped to discuss management control in the subsequent article already mentioned.

6 The rate of exchange at the time of writing might be taken as $HK12.75=£1.

7 It was completed in 1963–64 and the results published in 1965 as The Household Expenditure Survey 1963/64 and the Consumer Price Index.