Public Perceptions of Income Inequality in Hong Kong: trends, causes and implications.
This article examines the patterns and changes in public perceptions of domestic income inequality in Hong Kong in the past two decades and explains individual variations in these perceptions. It found that the perceived seriousness of income disparities had been persistently high, while the perceiv...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Contemporary China Vol. 18; no. 61; pp. 657 - 674 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2009
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