Keyword: Hong Kong
Geography Is Destiny? (2/16/2001)
Landlocked tropical countries are handicapped by high transportation and health care costs and scarcity of transferable canned technology because of their geography.
Keywords: access to markets, agricultural, Brunei, geography, Hong Kong, infrastructure, landlocked, malaria, Singapore, technological progress, technology, transportation costs, tropical zone
One-Price Law – Making an Illegal Buck (2/27/2007)
Artificially-imposed price difference between markets can lead to flow of goods from short-supplied areas to well-supplied areas to equalize their effective prices.
Keywords: arbitrage, China, diesel, gasoline, Hong Kong, material flow, one-price law, price control, red oil, smuggling, subsidy, tax, Vietnam