A government policy that favours male residents and was introduced to improve living conditions of indigenous inhabitants, has been criticised for exacerbating a chronic housing shortage
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Hong Kong
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Land Area
105,000 ha
GDP/Capita
57,318.1 USD
Total population
7,451,000
Urban population
100 %
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Agricultural land
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29 August 2017
Last month, the South African Independent Electoral Commission announced in frustration that it needs USD 22.9 million to collect addresses ahead of a court-mandated deadline, a problem compounded by the fact that most townships don’t have well-marked street names.
Elsewhere, this problem is even…