Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look into the fate of a troubled initiative in one of Hong Kong's economic engines – the container handling industry – that was developed in the midst of the discussions between Beijing and London leading towards the historical 1997 handover....

Economic forecasting has become big business with over 40 institutions producing forecasts in the UK alone. Such forecasts are widely reported in the media and businesses typically subscribe to the output of at least one forecasting agency and use it for planning production and investment over...