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Hong Kong: Govt relief helps ease poverty
The Government’s relief measures help to ease Hong Kong s poverty situation, Secretary for Labour & Welfare Dr Law Chi-kwong said today.
Dr Law made the remarks in response to reporters questions on the figures in the Hong Kong Poverty Situation Report 2019 released yesterday.
According to the report, the city’s poor population exceeded 1.4 million people in 2019 prior to the Government’s intervention. The report also elaborated on the measures taken to address the problem.
Dr Law said: “It tells us that if the Government does nothing at all, then how many people will be living in poverty. It also tells us the impact of the downturn of the economy, its impact on different sectors of the community.”
2020-12-24 03:06:01 GMT2020-12-24 11:06:01(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
HONG KONG, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) - The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government announced on Wednesday that its recurrent cash measures lifted 392,900 persons out of poverty and reduced the poverty rate by 5.6 percentage points in 2019.
The HKSAR government released on Wednesday the Hong Kong Poverty Situation Report 2019. Adopting the analytical framework of the poverty line (PL) endorsed by Hong Kong s Commission on Poverty, the Office of the Government Economist in collaboration with the Census and Statistics Department (C&SD) updated and analysed the poverty statistics using data from the General Household Survey by the C&SD as the basis. This is the eighth annual update of the poverty situation analysis since the publication of the first official Poverty Line (PL) in 2013.
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HONG KONG, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) - The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government announced on Wednesday that its recurrent cash measures lifted 392,