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Wong, Hung – Social Indicators Research, 2005
This paper examines the changes in the quality of life of poor households in Hong Kong in the late 1990s by analyzing their levels of expenditure, income security and poverty before and after 1997. Though there have been significant increases in the levels of expenditure among CSSA recipients, the expenditure among these poorest households in Hong…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economically Disadvantaged, Income, Housing