Poverty line is limited marker, Hong Kong minister says, as aid focus expands to carers

Hong Kong’s welfare minister has defended a government decision to drop the poverty line as an indicator for allocating assistance, saying it was a limited “statistical concept” that had failed to identify needy groups beyond those with low incomes, such as carers. A day after the government unveiled a new 21-indicator framework to identify vulnerable groups in a report, Secretary for Labour and W