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1996 and 2016. As such, he concluded that “recent
immigrants were economically more active than the rest of
the population for both men and women”.
So it is no surprise that the Hong Kong government
announced rolling out a fast track immigration scheme to
attract more technology professionals in 2018.
Social diversification conducive to
development
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However, the same WIPO study brought out an interesting
point, that social diversification is conducive to social and
economic development.
This is because the key to innovation and technology is
a novel idea. The top U.S. universities which are famous
for science and technology, such as the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and Stanford University, have
recently encouraged students to pursue a joint major in
computer science and other disciplines, such as language,
music, or economics. Their coursework also aims at