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The Mongkok Riots are a Wake-up Call about the Widening Wealth Gap

By admin On 2016/02/24 · Add Comment · 3,906 views
(This essay was published in South China Morning Post on 24 February 2016.)
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The Lumpen Bourgeoisie and the Lumpenproletariat

By admin On 2016/02/17 · Add Comment · 5,146 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 17 February 2016.) Are we in Hong Kong exacerbating our deep contradictions, rather than resolving them?
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Let’s Look to History For Clues in Understanding the Social Mood Behind Mongkok Riots

By admin On 2016/02/17 · Add Comment · 2,755 views
(This essay was published in South China Morning Post on 17 February 2016.)
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Negative Interest Rates

By admin On 2016/02/11 · Add Comment · 2,620 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 11 February 2016.) . . . it is now obvious that monetary policy alone cannot rekindle economic growth and reflate the economy. Negative interest rates, like quantitative easing, are just another unconventional monetary policy. There is no empirical evidence that they alone are able to rekindle growth and reflate prices.
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Negative interest rate policies just adding to global uncertainty

By admin On 2016/02/10 · Add Comment · 2,606 views
(This essay was published in South China Morning Post on 10 February 2016.)
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Connectors and Startups: Hong Kong’s DNA

By admin On 2016/02/03 · Add Comment · 2,463 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 3 February 2016.)A proper understanding of Hong Kong’s DNA requires us to draw on its historical strengths as a trading hub to jumpstart its innovation and startup culture. Our eyes should be focused on the global market place and our global network connections, including of course those across the border.
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Hong Kong as a Startup Hub: Mavens, Connectors and Salesmen

By admin On 2016/01/27 · Add Comment · 2,804 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 27 January 2016.)Hong Kong’s people will have to approach innovation and startups with their brains, passion, and integrity. In knowing how to speak the language of business that everyone in the world speaks, she can play host and hub in connecting her partners. Connecting China to the world and the world to China will be one of the outcomes.
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Why China cannot repeat the success of US’ Silicon Valley model of innovation

By admin On 2016/01/27 · Add Comment · 2,895 views
(This essay was published in South China Morning Post on 27 January 2016.)
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Family Breakdown, Poverty and Discontent in Public Housing

By admin On 2016/01/20 · Add Comment · 3,055 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 20 January 2016.)The experience of growing up in poor broken families is heavily tied up with government public housing policy rules and cross-border marriages that leave a permanent scar on their childhood experience. Most of the memories are bitter and painful. For these children, Hong Kong’s prosperity and China’s emergence is not a source of pride, but of alienation.
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Our Alien Nation

By admin On 2016/01/20 · Add Comment · 2,715 views
(This essay was published in South China Morning Post on 20 January 2016.)
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Fixed Exchange Rates, Economic Crisis, and Radical Populist Politics

By admin On 2016/01/13 · Add Comment · 2,707 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 13 January 2016.) If Hong Kong wants to avoid extremist politics, it must cure the ailments, pains and lingering effects of the social and economic transformations that have taken place in the past three decades and the ravages of the Asian financial crisis and the 2008 global financial crisis. This requires government to address the economic disparities first in housing wealth, and second to invest in education (especially early childhood education) to prevent the current inequalities from passing onto the next generation.
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Cure for Extremism

By admin On 2016/01/13 · Add Comment · 3,286 views
(This essay was published in South China Morning Post on 13 January 2016.)
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Will Entrepreneurial Decline Finally End?

By admin On 2016/01/06 · Add Comment · 3,465 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 6 January 2016.)Slower economic growth, the rapid expansion of the retired population, and the ravages of a long economic recession have fed the demand for a larger social welfare state, . . . . In a sense, the political demand for universal retirement protection is a demand for parental support relief by the growing numbers of lower middle-income working individuals and families.
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Is Hong Kong turning less entrepreneurial?

By admin On 2016/01/06 · Add Comment · 3,207 views
(This essay was published in South China Morning Post on 6 January 2016.)
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Social and Economic Concerns in Designing Retirement Protection

By admin On 2015/12/30 · Add Comment · 3,649 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 30 December 2015.)Our elderly poor need relief and the “those with financial need” option makes the best sense. Our other elderly population needs support in health care.
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