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Offers an overview of research and practice in professional discourse. This book highlights major developments and future directions. It explores key issues in three areas: Research Prospects, Models and Practices, and Contexts and Actions.

Has income inequality in Hong Kong risen or declined? This title enquiries if Hong Kong government's massive investment in education and public housing has brought down income inequality. It then contends that income inequality has risen substantially despite the well-intended education and housing investments.

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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? This book evaluates Hong Kong's pay-as-you-go (PAYG) proposal, Singapore's central provident fund (CPF) scheme, and the mandatory provident fund (MPF) plan.

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 barriers for people to come to Hong Kong, tapping China's potentials in tourism, becoming more attractive as a tourist location, and protecting the environment.

Hong Kong stands proud as the first jurisdiction in Asia to enact legislation to safeguard personal data in the form of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, Cap 486. This publication has the dual aim of becoming a practitioner's guide on the important subject of personal data privacy, and of enabling the Privacy Commissioner to discharge his major duty to promote awareness and understanding of the Ordinance.

In order to protect people's right in the virtual world, it is essential for us to understand the commercial implications of virtual world economies by evaluating the effectiveness of the existing laws in business, technology and commercial transactions. This examines the impact of virtual world activites and transactions on commercial law. These 13 essays discuss the opportunities, challenges, and solutions in this new market.

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Suiatble for visitors/business travellers/students from Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, Mainland China and Hong Kong, this work covers a wide range of daily-life situations and is organized in three columns for quick and easy access.

Challenges the traditional empirical approach to problem solving and provides construction practitioners with a seasoned account to resolving day-to-day complicated issues in construction project management. This book serves as a useful companion for those managing construction projects that are becoming more and more quantitative in nature.

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The new leadership team under Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao began to consolidate power and make its mark on China's policy programmes since the autumn of 2002. This volume tries to analyze the new leadership's perceptions of the challenges facing it, how it defines its priorities, and overcomes the resistance of vested interests.

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Hong Kong is known for good financial services, public utilities and other services. But are Hong Kong's key economic sectors sufficiently competitive? This book analyzes the situation of competition and regulation in ten industries and business sectors.

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 Kong? This title examines the effect of immigration on wages and employment in the local labour market.

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 unofficial statistics and the author's survey data of households, this book analyzes the economics of these questions.