ABSTRACT

This chapter was first presented as a paper at the conference ‘China and Latin America: Growing Economic Relations and Commonalities in Policy Issues’, December 1, 2008, Hong Kong University. We are grateful to Francis Ng for providing some of the data. Lok-Sang Ho and participants of the conference gave us very useful comments. We would like to thank BBVA, Hong Kong and the APEC Study Centre, the University of Hong Kong, for their generous support.