China: Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Recent Economic Developments

June 4, 1998

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China: Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Recent Economic Developments, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1998) accessed November 22, 2024

Summary

This paper reviews economic developments in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region during 1997–98. The paper highlights that beginning in mid-1997, the regional crisis began to erode confidence in Hong Kong’s exchange rate and prompted a series of speculative attacks. Pressures on the exchange rate led to sharply higher interest rates, weakened domestic demand, and clouded growth prospects for 1998. The paper provides an update on the transition issues since the transfer of sovereignty on July 1, 1997. Cyclical developments and trends in domestic and external demand and the property market are also analyzed.

Subject: Banking, Exports, Financial institutions, Housing, Income, International trade, Labor, Loans, National accounts

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Banking system, CR, Economic activity, Exchange rate, Exports, Financial market, Fiscal policy, Fiscal year, Hong Kong dollar, Hong Kong SAR, Housing, Income, Interest rate, ISCR, Loans, Private sector, Public expenditure, Southeast Asia, U.S. dollar

Publication Details

Pages:

92
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 1998/041
Stock No:

1HKGEA0011998
ISBN:

9781451816815
ISSN:

1934-7685

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