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The article presents results from Hong Kong, China's 2018 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth. It mentions indicators on the basis of which grades are assigned including organized sport participation, active transportation, and sedentary behavior. The report card reveals that children and youth in Hong Kong have low physical activity and physical fitness levels, and high sedentary behavior.

This paper draws on ethnographic research in Hong Kong to question the effectiveness of Elinor Ostrom's 'design principles' in providing solutions to social divisions by social capital building and institutionalised participation. It challenges the strategic and instrumental assumptions of human motivations for not adequately considering moral concerns, a sense of commitment and the right way of doing things in social cooperation. The tendency to formalise the process of participation, by authority building, rule enforcement and threat of sanction, plays down the role of informal institutions in mediating modes of interactions. The practices of good governance can undermine the already-limited social capital of poor people. This paper concludes by offering the 'agency-institutions-structures' framework in analysing social capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]