Sources of growth revisited: The importance of the nature of technological progress

S Acikgoz, M Mert - Journal of Applied Economics, 2014 - Elsevier
Traditional sources of growth studies generally assume that the nature of technological
progress is Hicks-neutral. However, the nature of technological progress compatible with …

Community social work in Hong Kong during COVID-19: Intervention strategies to address social injustices

KK Fung, SL Hung, YC Chan - International Social Work, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In Hong Kong, professional social workers made their presence felt when they delivered a
variety of services at the height of the pandemic. Social workers who were working in …

Shequ construction and service development in urban China: An examination of the Shenzhen model

N Tang, F Sun - Community Development Journal, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Though the Chinese term shequ originated from the translation of the English word
community, the operational definition and function of shequ is rather different from that of the …

Working from the ground up and participatory action research: An old urban neighbourhood in Hong Kong

KK Fung, YC Chan, SL Hung - Journal of Community Practice, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article presents a community-based action research project in a low-income
neighborhood in Hong Kong that adopted the Working from the Ground Up (WFGU) model …

A social worker with two watches: Synchronizing the left and right ideologies

JCS Cheung - International Social Work, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Accompanying the diminishing voice of the client in cross-subsidized social work, the author
makes an attempt to reveal the ambivalence and ambiguity of state-sponsored social work in …

Enclosure and recommoning in Wanchai, Hong Kong: The struggle of local community development in Asia's World City

NG Mee Kam - Local Economy, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Wanchai, situated east of the Central Business District of Hong Kong, Asia's World City, is a
highly accessible and mixed community with old and new buildings constructed over the …

Multicultural social work practice and South Asian migrants in Hong Kong

K Kwok, K Lee, K Law - China Journal of Social Work, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This paper explores how multicultural social work responds to the needs and structural
issues faced by South Asian migrants in Hong Kong. Three working approaches, namely …

One concept: many practices The diverse understandings of Community Development in East and South-East Asia

K Fung, G Craig - Community Development Journal, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Globalization is renowned for its Janus-faced persona. On the one hand, it provides
continuing economic development for regions and/or localities within regions. East and …

Seeing flowers through the mist: How social workers in disability services retrospectively view their educational experiences related to case management in Hong …

K Xun - China Journal of Social Work, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This article is principally designed to examine social workers' retrospective views on their
past educational experiences with case management in disability services to supply a …

Keys to the Community: A multiple case study into professional legitimation in community development practice

J Gradener - 2016 - research.hva.nl
Abstract Proefschrift van drs. Jeroen Gradener naar de legitimiteit van community
development (opbouwwerk). Niet vanzelf krijgen opbouwwerkers een mandaat van …