XN000022-1972-03-01 — Page 8

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Wednesday, March 1, 1972

In the last three years, gross investment had been running at

about 21 per cent of Gross Domestic Product.

"This is on the low side:

in Japan it is 35 per cent and in Taiwan and Korea it is said to be

23 per cent and 27 per cent respectively."

The Financial Secretary suggested that Hong Kong should keep

"a watchful eye" on this aspect of the Colony's economic position

during the next few years, bearing in mind that, for the most part,

"our investment has been directed to the most productive purposes and

that the capital assets created have been very intensively used."

"On the other hand," he went on. "it is possible to argue

that, compared with some other countrics, we have devoted a smaller

proportion of our investment to the development of the infrastructure."

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