Wealth gap

3 Mar 2013

A higher tax on the owners of Singapore's most expensive homes - the top 1 per cent - resonates here because it is aimed at closing a widening income gap, a problem we share. But it has prompted...

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Education is key to closing Hong Kong's wealth gap

22 Feb 2013

Using government census figures, Professor Chou Kee-lee, of the Institute of Education, has found disturbing inequity that could entrench the wealth gap that officials are trying to close.

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A sensible step towards a just society

18 Feb 2013

In every nation there are people who have more than others, but on the mainland the gap is worryingly wide. Leaders have long been mindful of the need to lessen the divide, their efforts spurred...

Concrete steps needed on income reform in China, say analysts

7 Feb 2013

The State Council has approved guidelines submitted jointly by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security,...

Mainland leaders face rough road to reforms

7 Feb 2013

The State Council on Tuesday issued guidelines on the long-awaited income distribution reform, vowing to increase minimum wages, limit the incomes of senior managers in state-owned enterprises and...

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China launches sweeping tax reforms to tackle inequality

China unveiled sweeping tax reforms on Tuesday to make wealthy state-owned firms, property speculators and the rich pay more to narrow a yawning gap between an urban elite and hundreds of millions...

China approves income distribution strategy

China has formulated a strategy for a long-delayed overhaul of income distribution, that reformers hope will unlock revenues and help address China’s growing inequality, but left details vague in...

Property and class

Could the relentless rise in real estate prices push the middle class to extinction as only the really wealthy can afford property? That’s one of the many questions facing Hong Kong and one posed...

MONITOR

How China's widening wealth gap caused the financial crisis

Howls of derision greeted the official announcement last week that mainland Chinese income inequality peaked in 2008 and has since been falling.

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Poor citizens' health problems

The findings of a University of Hong Kong study on health care for the poor ("Health of poor an urgent case", January 6) should provide Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying with some vital food for...

COMMENT

Follow the money along the road to ruin of Deng's vision