Chack Kie Wong
Biographic Data
| ID | 4239059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chack Kie Wong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chack Kie |
| FAMILY NAME | Wong |
| SIGNATURE | WONG C K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Squaring the Welfare Circle in Hong Kong: Lessons for Governance in Social Policy
This article examines how the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government squares the welfare circle. Because of the constrained institutional pathway of the established welfare system, the government is not successful in either reducing public expenditures or raising taxes. The article argues that it is important to look into the role of institutional design in the management of public expectations
Subjective Well-Being, Societal Condition and Social Policy - The Case Study of a Rich Chinese Society
Universal ideals and particular constraints of social citizenship: The Chinese experience of unifying rights and responsibilities
This study looks at the perceptions of citizens in a modern Chinese society and explores whether social rights and responsibilities are unified at both ideal and practice levels. It finds that the conception that the Chinese have a weak image of social rights is no longer true. The Chinese are generally ‘right‐deficit’ at the practice level. It is also found that there are wide gaps between ideal rights and practice rights, and between ideal resp…
Popular Belief in State Intervention for Social Protection in China
The paper starts with a brief discussion of recent developments of economic restructuring of the State Owned Enterprises in China and their related reforms in social insurance and social assistance. It then reports the findings of an attitude survey of residents in Shanghai in 1996 towards the social and economic consequences of economic reform. It reveals that, despite the fact that most people feel better off with the reforms, there is still a …
Measuring Third World Poverty by the International Poverty Line: The Case of Reform China
This article selects a fast growing economy, China, under Deng Xiao‐ping's economic reforms, as a case example for exploring the use of the median income‐linked international poverty line in measuring third world poverty. Those third world countries which have a fast growing economy have the prospect of increased income inequality. Henceforth, the widening income inequality justifies a comparable poverty measurement which takes into account the r…
State-funded social work projects for social reform: Reflections from community organizing in Hong Kong
Economic growth and welfare provision: The case of child day care in Hong Kong
Subjective Well-Being, Societal Condition and Social Policy - The Case Study of a Rich Chinese Society
Measuring Third World Poverty by the International Poverty Line: The Case of Reform China
This article selects a fast growing economy, China, under Deng Xiao‐ping's economic reforms, as a case example for exploring the use of the median income‐linked international poverty line in measuring third world poverty. Those third world countries which have a fast growing economy have the prospect of increased income inequality. Henceforth, the widening income inequality justifies a comparable poverty measurement which takes into account the r…
Popular Belief in State Intervention for Social Protection in China
The paper starts with a brief discussion of recent developments of economic restructuring of the State Owned Enterprises in China and their related reforms in social insurance and social assistance. It then reports the findings of an attitude survey of residents in Shanghai in 1996 towards the social and economic consequences of economic reform. It reveals that, despite the fact that most people feel better off with the reforms, there is still a …
Squaring the Welfare Circle in Hong Kong: Lessons for Governance in Social Policy
This article examines how the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government squares the welfare circle. Because of the constrained institutional pathway of the established welfare system, the government is not successful in either reducing public expenditures or raising taxes. The article argues that it is important to look into the role of institutional design in the management of public expectations
Universal ideals and particular constraints of social citizenship: The Chinese experience of unifying rights and responsibilities
This study looks at the perceptions of citizens in a modern Chinese society and explores whether social rights and responsibilities are unified at both ideal and practice levels. It finds that the conception that the Chinese have a weak image of social rights is no longer true. The Chinese are generally ‘right‐deficit’ at the practice level. It is also found that there are wide gaps between ideal rights and practice rights, and between ideal resp…
State-funded social work projects for social reform: Reflections from community organizing in Hong Kong
Economic growth and welfare provision: The case of child day care in Hong Kong
Economic growth and welfare provision: The case of child day care in Hong Kong
State-funded social work projects for social reform: Reflections from community organizing in Hong Kong
Measuring Third World Poverty by the International Poverty Line: The Case of Reform China
This article selects a fast growing economy, China, under Deng Xiao‐ping's economic reforms, as a case example for exploring the use of the median income‐linked international poverty line in measuring third world poverty. Those third world countries which have a fast growing economy have the prospect of increased income inequality. Henceforth, the widening income inequality justifies a comparable poverty measurement which takes into account the r…
Popular Belief in State Intervention for Social Protection in China
The paper starts with a brief discussion of recent developments of economic restructuring of the State Owned Enterprises in China and their related reforms in social insurance and social assistance. It then reports the findings of an attitude survey of residents in Shanghai in 1996 towards the social and economic consequences of economic reform. It reveals that, despite the fact that most people feel better off with the reforms, there is still a …
Universal ideals and particular constraints of social citizenship: The Chinese experience of unifying rights and responsibilities
This study looks at the perceptions of citizens in a modern Chinese society and explores whether social rights and responsibilities are unified at both ideal and practice levels. It finds that the conception that the Chinese have a weak image of social rights is no longer true. The Chinese are generally ‘right‐deficit’ at the practice level. It is also found that there are wide gaps between ideal rights and practice rights, and between ideal resp…
Subjective Well-Being, Societal Condition and Social Policy - The Case Study of a Rich Chinese Society
Squaring the Welfare Circle in Hong Kong: Lessons for Governance in Social Policy
This article examines how the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government squares the welfare circle. Because of the constrained institutional pathway of the established welfare system, the government is not successful in either reducing public expenditures or raising taxes. The article argues that it is important to look into the role of institutional design in the management of public expectations
Political science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · China (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (2 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (2 works) · Law (2 works)