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The Legislative Council in Hong Kong most recently approved the revision on the SMW rate to increase to HK$37.5 per hour, effective 1 May 2019. [63] Although the total statistics for Hong Kong show declining poverty, child poverty increased .3 percentage points from 2017 to 2018, up to a total of 23.1%, as a result of larger households due to ...
Hong Kong's base rate will rise to 2.75 per cent effective immediately, according to a statement by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), the city's de facto central bank.
Values are given in millions of United States dollars (USD) and have not been adjusted for inflation. These figures have been taken from the International Monetary Fund 's World Economic Outlook (WEO) Database (October 2024 edition) and/or other sources.
This is an alphabetical list of countries by past and projected Gross Domestic Product, based on the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) methodology, not on market exchange rates. These figures have been taken from the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook (WEO) Database, October 2024 Edition. [ 1 ]
As more than 300 banking and investment executives gathered in Hong Kong to discuss “living with complexity” in the financial world, they ended up trading trepidations about an uncertain future.
That's after the officials at the U.S. central bank in early December cut their forecast for 2025 rate cuts from four to two. ... in November, up 54.5% from the same month the previous year ...
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index rose 0.2% to 19,568.38 and the Shanghai Composite index also edged 0.2% higher, to 3,241.82. In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 index lost 1% to 38,193.05. Shares in gaming giant Nintendo dropped 4.3% in Tokyo as investors apparently were unimpressed by the company's newest console, which gamers have been waiting for since ...
In 2006 (with updates in 2008, 2010 and every year since), the Economist Intelligence Unit released the Democracy Index, an index compiled by examining the state of democracy in 167 countries, attempting to quantify this with an Index of Democracy focusing on five general categories—electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties ...