Programme Effectiveness in Activating Welfare Recipients to Work: The Case of Hong Kong

Some theories and research based on data in the West have implied the effectiveness of measures using the work-first approach, human capital development, community work experience, and financial incentives to promote welfare recipients’ transition from welfare to work. Nevertheless, the generality of the implication does not hold without examining the effectiveness in a non-Western setting. The present study thus employs survey data from 1,240 welfare recipients in Hong Kong to investigate the effectiveness of various measures for raising the recipients’ work motivation and diminishing their welfare dependency. The measures examined include the Intensive Employment Assistance Project (IEAP), Community Work (CW) Programme and Disregarded Earnings (DE) arrangements. Findings reveal the effectiveness of these three measures. Particularly, help received from various services of the IEAP was the principal factor in the effectiveness of the IEAP and the IEAP was effective for welfare recipients who were older or less skilled. The findings thus offer support to the generality of the claim about the effectiveness of welfare-to-work programmes.     

黎民伟与早期香港进步剧社

黎民伟是中国早期电影一位重要的拓荒者。在从事电影事业之前，黎民伟最喜爱的还是戏剧。在中学时代。他就积极参与早期香港进步剧社的革命活动。并以演文明戏的名义。与其他人一起将枪械装进戏箱。冒着生命危险运往广州。支持广州起义。后来他又将文明戏首次搬上香港银幕．开创了香港电影“导人向善、重人伦”的优良传统。     

洪仁玕的特殊教育思想述评

作为太平天国后期的主要领导人,洪仁玕被认为是中国近代特殊教育的思想启蒙者。在他向洪秀全呈交的资本主义施政纲领《资政新篇》中,他提出了诸多特殊教育的思想,如把残疾人的教育纳入和谐社会体系、制订相关的法律、开展职业教育等。这些思想对我国近代以来的特殊教育产生了深远的影响。     

论萧红小说的抒情性

萧红的小说，不以情节叙事为重心，而是在小说创作中大胆引进抒情功能，散文化的抒情性成了她小说创作的主要特征。萧红的小说创作促进了现代小说观念的更新，使小说获得了另一种独特意义的存在。     

战后初期港英政府租务管制政策研究

第二次世界大战结束后,香港人口急剧增长,引发了巨大的生存居住压力,屋荒问题空前严重,居住难成为重大的社会问题。为此,港英政府干预及介入房屋市场,制订实施租务管制条例,管制所有战前楼宇的租值,积极处理租务纠纷,有效遏制了屋荒进一步恶化及私人房屋租金的高涨,规范了房屋市场,大量移民暂得安居,确保战后社会的稳定、转型及吸聚人才。     

焦竑《国朝献征录》的文献价值

焦竑是明代后期著名的学者,其史学著作《国朝献征录》,篇幅巨大,内容宏富,收录人物众多,对于明代史事和人物的研究,对于清修《明史》的考订、补充,有着重大的学术价值和史料价值。但由于清初的文化政策、《明史》的独尊地位以及四库馆臣的诋毁,《国朝献征录》流传很少,致使学人不能很好地认识和利用这部著作的学术成果和其独特的文献价值。     

洪升历史剧爱情观的进步性及男权色彩

洪升的《长生殿》歌颂了李杨最终脱却帝妃桂冠的至真爱情，《四婵娟》则强调合理的婚姻应是才貌相当、以知音式的互爱为基础，这说明作者的婚恋观念已具有了一定的现代性爱色彩和平等意识。但《回文锦》肯定纳妾、抨击妇“妒”。综合三部剧作以及作者自身的婚姻生活说明，洪升前两剧所设计的“新型”夫妻关系，归根结蒂是从男性希望提高自身爱情质量角度提出的要求，带有相当浓厚的男权自私色彩。     

现代化与本土化：好莱坞与香港电影的双向互动——兼论香港电影复兴之路

好莱坞主要以制片体制、建立企业文化、垂直整合等现代化因素影响了香港电影；而香港电影则以重娱乐、重类型、叙事极致化以及中国武侠精神等本土特色影响了好莱坞电影。香港电影只有立足本土化，继续借鉴好莱坞的全球化和现代代策略，才能走向复兴。     

苌弘的史书形象嬗变与士人的精神传承

苌弘是春秋时代周王朝的大夫,辅佐几代周王长达57年。88岁的苌弘凭借数十年的忠心和声望,保持与晋国的关系,维持了周王朝的稳定;主持礼乐活动,以德服人,坚守周文化,等到了孔子访学,实现了薪尽火传;知天命不可违,依然抗争,竭尽全力维护周王朝的存续。苌弘的鞠躬尽瘁,碧血丹心,对古代士人精神有独特而持久的影响。     

Planning and development control through lease conditions

The Hong Kong government has pledged to deal with the imbalance between supply and demand of housing. Given the innate constraints of limited land resources in Hong Kong and the extensive and expedient control enforced through lease conditions, the Hong Kong government can alleviate the long-recognized problem of housing shortage by modifying specific development conditions. Therefore, the supply of housing units can be changed at a faster pace to satisfy the requirement of private dwellings. Other factors affecting the property market in Hong Kong include land supply, economic issues, population growth, and income growth. Many studies, for example, Hui et al. (Monograph, Department of Building and Real Estate, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Hong Kong Government (Study of Housing Demand, Hong Kong Government Printer, Hong Kong and Study of Housing Demand Model, Hong Kong Government Printer, Hong Kong), have investigated in detail the impacts of these factors on the property market. However, little or nothing is known about the planning and development control through lease conditions. Therefore, this study particularly attempts to examine how the Hong Kong government exerts its influence in the local private residential market through changing the development conditions. These conditions will be studied separately and distinctively in order to capture their unitary effects upon the local private residential real estate market. Section 1 looks at Hong Kong's tenure system, followed by the deliberation of how planning and development control is done through lease conditions (in Section 2). 3 and 4 set out the analytical framework and report on the findings of how lease conditions affect property supply. The concluding section gives out recommendations.