Pay freezes won’t fix Hong Kong’s chronic fiscal problems

Pay freezes won’t fix Hong Kong’s chronic fiscal problems

[South China Morning Post] - 03/7/2025

Reliance on salary freezes and workforce reductions has become a recurring theme. But they fail to address the public sector’s inefficiencies.



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