Social Policy In Hong Kong Essay

By evidence, according to Hong Kong Annual Report (1995), from 1975 to 1995, the profit tax rate was increased from 15% to 16.5%. It was only slightly increased 1.5% over 20 years. Similarly, the income tax was 15% in 1975, which is unchanged for 20 years.

Chiu (1997) claimed that increasing the tax rate in Hong Kong is prohibited topic in social policy, it ultimately leads to a serious limitation to the government in providing social welfare.

Minimization of social welfare (Chiu and Wong, 2008)

In fact, as argued by Wong (2012), it is famous that there is minimum level of social welfare in the scopes of social security, housing, Health and social services under British colonial government over hundreds in Hong Kong.

However, one of the

Not only that, the rate of monthly assistance was only up to 18% of median income, which was a much lower than the international standard in 1996.

In general, as we can see that, Social policy in the period of British colonial government adopts a positive non-interventionism role to ensure economic growth such as taking low tax rate and cutting off basic social welfare. However, there are also many role for British colonial government such as preservation of the Chinese family function. Therefore, the role of British colonial government in social policy has a profound impact on future developments for Hong Kong.

Transitional period of Hong Kong (Chiu and Wong, 1998; Wong, 2012)

As Ip (2010) believed that Hong Kong’s colonial period hand down the city with an effective rule of law, open markets and transparent governance, there are the specific reasons for the successful story of Hong Kong.

Therefore, Chiu and Wong (1998) pointed out that although Hong Kong was returned to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and became SAR government, it still is an assurance of preservation, which including not only the preservation of civil liberties which we are enjoying with, but also, and centrally, the extension of distributive