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Why Are Private Housing Units So Small?

By admin On 2018/01/31 · Add Comment · 4,078 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 31 January 2018.) …….. given our severe housing crisis the government now has a political crisis on its hands. A far more radical change in housing policies must be contemplated. This should include allowing higher plot ratios for all developments and building smaller unit sizes in the public sector. And of course, the existing stock of public housing units should be privatized to incentivize greater use efficiency.
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Small Private Housing Units Size

By admin On 2018/01/31 · Add Comment · 2,546 views
(This essay was published in the South China Morning Post on 31 January 2018.)
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Our Future Housing Policy Commitment – Rental versus Ownership

By admin On 2017/12/27 · Add Comment · 3,671 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 27 December 2017.) ……. the private housing market has been more efficient in adapting to rising housing shortages by accommodating more people in limited residential space compared with the public housing sector. And within the public housing sector, subsidized ownership housing has accommodated the shortage more effectively than public rental housing.
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Housing Solution – Renting or Ownership

By admin On 2017/12/27 · Add Comment · 2,852 views
(This essay was published in the South China Morning Post on 27 December 2017.)
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The Public Rental Housing Waiting List is Getting Longer

By admin On 2017/11/29 · Add Comment · 4,216 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 29 November 2017.) If the government believes that building more public rental-housing units would shorten the waiting time, …… Hong Kong’s housing shortage will not be solved ….. Society will continue to be divided between “haves” and “have-nots” and the feeling of injustice will not abate.
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Public Housing Paradox

By admin On 2017/11/29 · Add Comment · 3,396 views
(This essay was published in the South China Morning Post on 29 November 2017.)
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The Labor Shortage Challenge

By admin On 2017/11/01 · Add Comment · 2,875 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 1 November 2017.) Hong Kong’s enormous and growing labor shortage in the world’s fastest growing region could turn the city into the first female-dominated workforce in the coming decade. The city could rise to become the world’s shining city on the hill, where men and women forge a new division of labor both at home and in the workplace.
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Labor Shortage and Rise of Working Women

By admin On 2017/11/01 · Add Comment · 2,442 views
(This essay was published in the South China Morning Post on 1 November 2017.)
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Globalization Should Not be Blamed for the “Elephant Chart”

By admin On 2017/10/04 · Add Comment · 4,508 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 4 October 2017.) The true significance of the “Elephant Chart” is about the remarkable rise of the world’s lower and middle classes, especially China, and how global income equality has declined as a result of globalization since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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“Elephant Chart” – Incorrect Blame on Globalization

By admin On 2017/10/04 · Add Comment · 4,687 views
(This essay was published in the South China Morning Post on 4 October 2017.)
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Hyper-Globalization and Hong Kong

By YueChim Richard On 2017/09/06 · Add Comment · 4,487 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 6 September 2017.) Unshackling the barriers and constraints that hold back the creativity of our people and investing in their human capital will be the two most important policy strategies ………. The social and economic woes that inflict Hong Kong are the products of hyper-globalization. …… They need to be understood anew and treated with fundamentally new policy strategies.
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To Cross The Hurdle of Hyper-Globalization

By YueChim Richard On 2017/09/06 · Add Comment · 2,482 views
(This essay was published in the South China Morning Post on 6 September 2017.)
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The Next Twenty Years

By admin On 2017/06/28 · Add Comment · 9,493 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 28 June 2017.) When most citizens are public housing tenants, they will resist the arrival of skills and talents in fear that they have come to take away what is rightfully theirs. When most citizens are owners of private property, then they will welcome the arrivals as the bearers of shared prosperity, not shared poverty.
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Demographic Trends and Economic Performance

By admin On 2017/06/28 · Add Comment · 2,667 views
(This essay was published in South China Morning Post on 28 June 2017.)
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How to Understand Twenty Years of Economic Performance

By admin On 2017/06/21 · Add Comment · 3,198 views
(This essay was published in Hong Kong Economic Journal on 21 June 2017.) How has Hong Kong’s economy performed in the twenty years since the establishment of the Special Administrative Region? Compared to the previous twenty years, economic growth has certainly slowed and economic inequality has increased.
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