To what extent does the population structure in Hong Kong affect on its future economy

To what extent does the population structure in Hong Kong affect its future economy

This research project seeks to bring out the effects of the Hong Kong population structure on the future economy of Hong Kong . Hong Kong is a booming economy being one of the major financial districts of the South Asian region and its changing population structure has a lot to do with its workforce and in turn affects its working culture and present and future economic structure as well

Research Question

The research question for this project seek

to study how or to what extent the population structure a regards to age and gender or social characteristics of the population tend to affect the present and future economy of Hong Kong . So there are two parts to this research project - the first part analyzes the population structure of Hong Kong with regards to the age and gender or social status and the second part brings out the economic structure of Hong Kong from its past to present changes and the future of Hong Kong economy in a more globalized world and the impact of global markets on the financial centre of Asia

The focused research question in this case brings out several dimension of the study as through the analysis of the qualitative and quantitative dimensions , the subjective and objective aspects of the study . The impact of the changes in population structure on the economy could be understood on the basis of changing population numbers and percentages quantitatively and the socioeconomic changes as understood qualitatively . The research question essentially focuses on the qualitative and quantitative dimensions of the research as it seeks to bring out the impact of population change in economic structure of Hong Kong in a descriptive manner and in accordance with socioeconomic changes , as in influence of wage , gender , age gaps and changes etc an also the direct statistical values and correlations between population and economic structures in terms of numbers and statistical values . The research question on the extent to which population structure affects the Hong Kong economy thus brings out this `extent ' in terms of numbers or real values as also in terms of of changes in Hong Kong as what happens qualitatively when the population structure changes and what is the impact on the economy from a descriptive point of view . Like for example this can be related to lack of high living standards , poor health conditions of the elderly . These would be qualitative dimensions of the research and the values or percentages of changing population and simultaneously changing economy would be the quantitative aspects of research . These two methods are discussed further in the methodology section as given below

Background /Literature Review

A brief literature review is provided here and brings out the main points of research articles as published in journals and obtained from ingentaconnect or sciencedirect or JSTOR . The literature review is on the Hong Kong population and economic structure and articles published and written on these...