As international companies increased their investment in Asia, it became clear that the poor working conditions they brought required an informed response from the labour movement and its supporters. Asia Monitor Resource Centre (AMRC) was founded in...
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This paper compares the different approaches of Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, and China with respect to how they manage their respective defined contribution, individual retirement account systems. The four cases illustrate important differences in...
Instituciones y agencias involucradas: World Bank Group
This paper proposes an approach to classifying and measuring the primary elements of private pension supervision, and undertakes an evaluation using a representative set of countries. The analysis considers how supervision methods and style relate to the...
Instituciones y agencias involucradas: World Bank Group
Developing Asia is forecast to expand by 6.0% in 2018, and by 5.9% in 2019. Excluding Asia’s high-income newly industrialized economies, growth should reach 6.5% in 2018 and 6.4% in 2019. With oil prices edging up and robust consumer demand continuing,...
Instituciones y agencias involucradas: Asian Development Bank, ADB
A new transport subsidy scheme in Hong Kong enabling commuters to earn rebates on their Octopus cards kicked off on Saturday with some hiccups at kiosks in convenience stores. Under the Public Transport Fare Subsidy Scheme, commuters with monthly travel...
BLOG: One morning in May, cleaning worker Lau Chung dragged herself to the head office of Hong Kong’s Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) Schemes Authority in Kwai Chung. Turning 65, the age that allows her to withdraw all her MPF cash, she wanted to find out...
OPINION: On October 16, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam revealed her policy address to tackle social and economic woes in Hong Kong amidst the ongoing protests and her government’s legitimacy crisis. The policy address is focusing on the long-term...
A new round of a one-off living subsidy was the centrepiece of a raft of welfare measures that Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor unveiled in her third policy address aimed mainly at helping the city’s poor cope with high property prices. Lam...