从港式自由主义到港式福利主义：回归后香港福利模式的转变

Abstract:The Social welfare reform becomes a hot topic in the public sphere recently，though the academic had claimed that the social welfare of Hong Kong developed in liberalist way before 1997.This paper explores the social welfare transform of Hong Kong in recent 20 years following two ways of the welfare discourse and policy practice on the material base of media reports，government reports and official statistics.We found that some fiscal expenditure principle had been revised by the government since 1997 through the ways of legislation for minimum hourly wage，one-time measure for relief living difficulty，etc，while different interest groups kept on debating about the ideal modes of welfare surplus or welfare state.However，welfare mode of Hong Kong will not change completely to welfarism in future but rather to a Hong Kong's mode—an increasingly completed surplus mode，since the society seems hardly to have consent about the elementary principle of welfare state—“social welfare is a human right”.

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