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I turn in paragraph 2.19 to the Need to Explain Hong Kong's Lifestyle to the World, and in paragraph 2.22 consider how Hong Kong and the U.K. could contribute separately or jointly to an agenda for international discussion on subjects such as: -

(a) Economic Policy; the Problems and Likely Consequences.

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

(f)

(g)

Macroeconomic Management.

The Information Base for the Setting of Priorities within Government and Industry.

Radical Change in Government Structures, or in the balance between Public and Private Sectors: Priorities and Consequences for Administration.

Future Thinking on Social Policy in the light of the Implications of Current Economic Policy: Safety Nets and the Provision of Social Guarantees.

Checks and Balances, the Constitutional Dispensation and the Rule of Law.

Checks and Balances in Public Policy-making.

(h) The Development of National and Regional Economic and Social

Policy.

(i)

(j)

Practical Politics, Commercial Judgment, and the Injection of Environmental Criteria into the Process of Economic and Political Decision-taking.

The Role of Parliamentary and Local Government Institutions.

(k) The Media as "Explainer" in a Period of Reform: its Role, Status,

and Funding.

(1) Managing a Modern Business in Today's Commercial World.

(m) Investment Policies for the Year 2000.

(n) Religion and Politics.

(0)

The Role of Civic Education.

(p)

Corruption, Accountability, Ethics and 1997.

I go on then to consider aspects of:-

"Lifestyle and 1997"