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Nevertheless,
the
HKG should maintain its efforts to ensure that
UK (like all the territory's
investment
foreign trade and
partners) is supplied with all the information
required to demonstrate how favourably Hong Kong compares
with other business locations in the region.
The Need for Further Research
35.
The
CPU's
the
current
research.
impression is that some of the blanks in
paper could be filled in through further
In addition,
It ought, for example, to be possible to gather
from various official UK sources fuller statistics on
invisible earnings from the territory.
sophisticated econometric analyses ought to make possible
statistical estimations which would allow the production of
reasonably credible "balance sheet" for the UK economic
relationship.
a
36.
Such an exercise has never, to the CPU's knowledge,
The two most significant
been carried out successfully.
previous efforts were:-
(a) In 1977, Mr.
C.J.M.
Hardie produced a
confidential report "The Economic and
Commercial Value of Hong Kong to the United
Kingdom", now outdated; and
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