Poverty concentration in an affluent city: Geographic variation and correlates of neighborhood poverty rates in Hong Kong.

ABSTRACT: Previous investigations of geographic concentration of urban poverty indicate the contribution of a variety of factors, such as economic restructuring and class-based segregation, racial segregation, demographic structure, and public policy. However, the models used by most past research do not consider the possibility that poverty concentration may take different forms in different locations across a city, and most studies have been conducted in Western settings. We investigated the spatial patterning of neighborhood poverty and its correlates in Hong Kong, which is amongst cities with the highest GDP in the region, using the city-wide ordinary least square (OLS) regression model and the local-specific geographically weighted regression (GWR) model. We found substantial geographic variati

SUBMITTER: Guo Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5825023 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature