Macau's GDP per capita is -higher- than Hong Kong's so it is more successful than Hong Kong is on a per capita level.With a POD no earlier than 1900, how can we make Macau as successful as Hong Kong in OTL?
Macau's GDP per capita is -higher- than Hong Kong's so it is more successful than Hong Kong is on a per capita level.
The problem with Macau's economy on an absolute level is that Macau is much much smaller than Hong Kong and Singapore (less than 1/10 of the population of HK) and therefore unlikely to achieve the same level of prominence.
With a POD no earlier than 1900, how can we make Macau as successful as Hong Kong in OTL?
Add these if you want a Macau that's able to harbor more population.
Don't those island have only a few thousand people each? I mean adding small island doesn't really help that much, HK has a bunch of small islands near it too and most of them are lightly inhabited despite the population density on HK island itself.Add these if you want a Macau that's able to harbor more population.
Well, Hong Kong's success has been one of the reasons why Macau hasn't done so well. Worse Hong Kong might mean better Macau.
This statement is only true to a certain extend, Hong Kong is a pretty small place with relative low population which got rich through labour intensive exports of the same sort which is employed on the mainland today (it only transformed itself into serviced based economy afterwards), there is no reason why this prosperity hurts Macau because its exports are not going to be big enough to seriously lower market demand for said exports.A major reason for Hong Kong's success is that it served as the entrepot for the entire region. A region does not need two entrepots. If Hong Kong is it, then Macau cannot develop the same way.
Don't those island have only a few thousand people each? I mean adding small island doesn't really help that much, HK has a bunch of small islands near it too and most of them are lightly inhabited despite the population density on HK island itself.