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List of Questions to be prepared

Lecture 4 - Poverty and Social Security

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  1. How can we define poverty? What is the difference between absolute poverty and relative poverty? What are the different ways of defining relative poverty?
  2. Who are poor? What are their characteristics? How many people in HK are poor?
  3. Why people are poor?
  4. What are the causes of poverty in many countries? What characterize poverty in these countries?
  5. What are the different types of deprivation? What causes deprivation?
  6. What is a social security programme?
  7. What are the various types of social security programmes? What do these programme attempt to protect?
  8. What is a provident fund? How does it operate? What are the various types of retirement protection programmes?
  9. What are the differences between Central Provident Fund, Mandatory Provident Fund, and Old Age Pension Scheme discussed in Hong Kong in the last decade?
  10. What was Public Assistance and what is Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) Scheme in Hong Kong? To what extent it is comprehensive? When did they start? Why did they exist? How much did we spend? How many people are benefited? How can we improve the CSSA?

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