United Kingdom-Hong Kong: Selected Issues

July 16, 1997

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United Kingdom-Hong Kong: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1997) accessed November 12, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper reviews the key institutions and arrangements for economic policymaking that were expected to be put in place following the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong to China in 1997. International treaties between Britain and China from the nineteenth century are reviewed. The paper discusses Hong Kong’s current and future constitutional documents—the Letters Patent and Royal Instructions, and the Basic Law, respectively. The paper also provides a background on the system of government in Hong Kong in 1997.

Subject: Economic sectors, Expenditure, Labor, Labor costs, Manufacturing, National accounts, Services sector, Transportation

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Central Asia, China, Cost, CR, East Asia, Europe, Export trade, GDP, Global, Hong Kong economy, Hong Kong government, Hong Kong stock market, ISCR, Labor costs, Manufacturing, Property market, Services sector, Trade, Transportation

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Pages:

115
Volume:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 1997/050
Stock No:

1HKGEA0021997
ISBN:

9781451816853
ISSN:

1934-7685

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