... question is whether the WTO membership will bring any surprises. There is still anxiety over Hong Kong's future under the Chinese rule; a world audience follows closely the island's events with concern. Contrary to most predictions, Hong Kong's most serious post-handover problems have been economic and social rather than political (Tang, 1999). Both the pre-handover doomsayers" prediction of lost ... intensive industries will suffer considerable losses due to their low productivity and weak competitiveness (Chan, 1998). Agriculture will also suffer since China's agriculture as a whole is...

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... , despite setbacks, it was critical that activism continue, but that the full dimensions and scale of the problem be re-articulated. The issues could no longer be confined to the problems of the new "free trade" agreements or the policies of the World Bank. The problem needed to be understood systemically, as being a global process. A complete reorganization of the world's economic ... of Japan and South Korea as major industrial powers are cited as a proof of legitimacy of this logic. So are the collapse of the Soviet Union, ushering in of perestroika and glasnost in Russia, Chinese par...

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... export-led regime was not something these economies could do immediately. Usually, the countries experimented with import-substitution in order to increase the first phase of development for their economy before approaching an export-orientated approach. This type of switch was much to do with historical timing, geographic ... reality and political necessity as it was with policy foresight. The period that was the 1960s produced a booming world economy, a relatively open and non-protectionist regime together with some huge U.S spending related to the Vietnam War which all aided to launc...

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