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贝尔奖获得者、自由派经济学家斯蒂格利茨（Joseph Stiglitz）周四在香港对这里最近通过的最低工资标准法案表示支持。香港被认为是市场自由的堡垒，这是它首次制定最低工资标准。
Bloomberg News
哥伦比亚大学经济学教授斯蒂格利茨
他说，最低工资是政府为维持市民的经济利益、使底层民众维持生计的重要政策工具。香港的这一新法规将把最低工资定在每小时28港元（合3.61美元）。
斯蒂格利茨曾在20世纪90年代初支持过美国提高最低工资标准，当时他是美国前总统克林顿（Bill Clinton）的经济顾问委员会委员。他说，美国的例子充分证明，最低工资标准对经济和底层人民都会产生积极影响。
斯蒂格利茨是在亚洲国际地产投资交易会（Mipim Asia）上发表演讲时说这番话的。
Alex Frangos
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Liberal economist and Nobel prize winner Joseph Stiglitz was in Hong Kong Thursday and gave his support to the recently passed minimum wage, a first for the supposed bastion of market freedom.
'It's an important part of making a market economy work well,' he said.
'Minimum wages are an important instrument of government policy to maintain the economic well-being of citizens and enable the people at the bottom to maintain their livelihood,' he said. The new Hong Kong regulation will establish a floor on wages at 28 Hong Kong dollars an hour ($3.61).
Stiglitz recalled supporting the lifting of the minimum wage in the U.S. when he was on President Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors in the early 1990s. 'The evidence in the U.S. was overwhelming that the minimum wage could have a positive effect on both the economy and people at the bottom,' he said.
Stiglitz was speaking at Mipim Asia, a real estate conference.
Alex Frangos
'It's an important part of making a market economy work well,' he said.
'Minimum wages are an important instrument of government policy to maintain the economic well-being of citizens and enable the people at the bottom to maintain their livelihood,' he said. The new Hong Kong regulation will establish a floor on wages at 28 Hong Kong dollars an hour ($3.61).
Stiglitz recalled supporting the lifting of the minimum wage in the U.S. when he was on President Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors in the early 1990s. 'The evidence in the U.S. was overwhelming that the minimum wage could have a positive effect on both the economy and people at the bottom,' he said.
Stiglitz was speaking at Mipim Asia, a real estate conference.
Alex Frangos
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