About 20 percent of the total production of tropical timber is traded internationally. But for Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, and some countries in West-Central Africa, tropical timber trade accounts for more than 50 percent of production. Although the tropical timber trade has often...

Japanese direct foreign investment (DFI) in developing countries has been export market oriented. Exports were the dominant sales destinations for the affiliates in the primary industries. In manufacturing, although local markets were the dominant sales destinations of the Japanese affiliates,...

Japan's continuing large current account surpluses have promoted a series of investigators to examine the volume and the structure of the goods that Japan imports. The usual charge is that Japan's level of manufactured imports is too low and that it is low because Japan has erected a wall of...