An exploration of older Hong Kong residents’ willingness to make copayments toward vouchers for community care

Because of its rapidly aging population, Hong Kong faces great challenges in the provision and financing of long-term care (LTC) and needs to explore sustainable funding mechanisms. However, there is a paucity of research on older people’s willingness to pay (WTP) for LTC services in Hong Kong. This study utilizes data collected in Hong Kong in 2011 (N = 536) to investigate older people’s receptivity to this financing mode by assessing their co-payments for a community care service voucher scheme and then testing how potential factors affect respondents’ amount of co-payment. Results show that respondents’ WTP was positively associated with family financial support, financial condition, and positive attitudes toward this novel policy and negatively associated with family caregiving support. Direct and moderating effects of family financial support on WTP were found. The policy-related implications of LTC financing to improve older people’s acceptance of co-payment mechanisms, financial condition, and shared responsibility of care are discussed.     

Health Policy in the Asian NIEs

This paper compares the health policies of Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan with the purpose of drawing policy lessons. The study finds two distinct policy clusters: Hong Kong and Singapore on the one hand, and Korea and Taiwan on the other. With respect to provision of health care, the former rely largely on public hospitals for delivering inpatient care while the latter rely on private hospitals. In matters of financing, they are similar in that out‐of‐pocket is a major source of financing in all four countries. However, they are also different because Korea and Taiwan have universal health insurance while the city states do not. The study concludes that public provision of hospital care, as in Hong Kong and Singapore, yields more favourable outcomes than many mainstream economists would have us believe. Conversely, private provision in combination with social insurance, as found in Korea and Taiwan, severely undermines efforts to contain health care costs.     

发展金融市场与实现战略目标--以天津为例的分析

我国从中央到地方都制定了进入21世纪后的中长期经济社会发展战略.为实现宏伟的战略目标,措施有很多,其中发展金融市场是重要的措施之一.本研究报告以天津为例,运用计量经济的方法,对实现目标所需投资进行了预测,对融资的可能性和制约因素进行了分析,在此基础上,提出了发展金融市场、拓宽融资渠道、加强投融资力度的措施、建议.本研究报告的研究思路和方法,对同类问题的研究具有参考价值.     

From Monterrey to Doha: Taxation and Financing for Development

Ill‐conceived tax policies cost developing countries vast sums of public revenue, but this issue has received relatively little attention within the Financing for Development (FfD) process of the United Nations. The outcome documents of the FfD conferences in Monterrey (2002) and Doha (2008) largely neglect globalisation‐related tax issues such as under‐taxation of multinationals and capital flight to tax havens. This article analyses how this topic has been marginalised by powerful interests, ideas and institutional factors, but it also shows how a growing coalition of governments, international organisations and NGOs has recently succeeded in raising the issue much higher up the international agenda.     

浅析国家助学贷款实施中的问题及对策

国家助学贷款是一项资助高校经济困难学生的重要政策,对加快高等教育的发展、学生素质的培养和提高都有着重要意义,但在实施过程中并未达到预期效果。国家助学贷款的顺利实施需要调动银行、财政、教育、学生及学生家长等多方面的积极性。     

A Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Financing Constraints on Investment

is shown that investment under financing constraints can be modeled as a one-sided deviation from a frictionless investment level, and that effects of financing constraints can be identified and quantified by imposing a distributional assumption on the effects. Panel data on Taiwanese manufacturing firms between 1989 and 1996 are used in the estimation. It is found that (1) some of the sorting criteria used in the literature do not have significant and monotonic relationships with the degrees of financing constraint, resulting in problematic sample separations, and (2) the effects of financial liberalization in Taiwan are such that the investment efficiency improved over time for a typical firm, and the improvement was particularly large for smaller firms.     

推行子女照护责任货币化,促进老年照护社会化

随着我国人口老龄化和高龄化速度加快,在完善社会养老保险制度的同时,迫切需要进行制度创新,从我国实际出发着力发展居家养老,开拓居家养老服务所需的资金来源,促进居家养老服务的可持续发展。     

未确知模糊综合评判的融通仓系统风险预警研究

融通仓是用资金流盘活物流，或用物流拉动资金流，并使参与的物流、生产、中介和金融机构等供应链相关的企业可以通过融通仓模式实现多方共赢，因此，备受业界的关注。但融通仓因参与主体的多元化，其运营本身又存在固有的风险。针对融通仓运营风险具有复杂性、主观性和未确知性的特点，本文引入未确知有理数和模糊数学理论建立融通仓风险预警模型，该模型首先采用未确知理论求得风险发生的概率，然后用模糊数学方法求得风险发生的损失后果，最后通过风险效用函数求得系统风险。并通过实例对该模型进行了验证分析，为物流企业实施融通仓业务提供风险管理的量化方法和对策。     

我国高科技企业之风险投资问题研究

风险投资作为高科技企业的一种新的融资方式,较其他融资方式更有优势,但其在我国起步较晚,发展中还存在一些问题。笔者认为,只有拓宽风险投资的融资渠道,建立并完善其资金变现通道,构建高效的风险投资政府支撑体系,培养高素质的风险投资专业人才,才能促进我国高科技企业进行有效融资。     

低碳努力下资金约束供应链的融资选择策略研究

本文研究低碳环境下资金约束制造商的供应链中成员决策策略及融资模式选择问题,建立了由供应商主导,制造商跟随的Stacklberg模型。考虑市场需求受制造商低碳努力的影响,并设计银行信贷和贸易信贷两种融资方式,从供应链中成员各自利益最大化和低碳努力水平最大化出发,给出了两种融资模式下的均衡解并进行了模式比较分析。研究表明当制造商的低碳投资成本系数和供应商的生产成本均较低时,制造商应选择BCF模式融资,当低碳投资成本系数较低,而生产成本较高时,TCF模式是制造商的融资均衡策略。当低碳投资成本系数较高时,无论生产成本如何变化,此时BCF模式始终是制造商的最佳融资策略。同时存在供应商生产成本的阈值,使得当生产成本低于该阈值时,BCF模式对供应商更佳,其他情况下TCF模式是供应商的融资策略均衡。