the system is inefficient, and second that prices of imported products tend to be higher in Japan than in other markets …

Using the international input-output tables between Japan and five Pacific Basin countries (Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia … 1985. It shows that intra-industry trade in manufactured products expanded as Japan increased imports of more capital …

) activities. The report then describes in greater detail the Japan Administered Account for Selected Fund Activities (JSA … Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD), Monetary and Capital Markets Department (MCM), and Statistics Department (STA). Japan … provides grant contributions for two scholarship programs. In 1996, the Japan-IMF Scholarship Program for Advanced Studies …

This 2004 Article IV Consultation highlights that Japan’s economic recovery continued in 2003 and into the first part …

The Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes data module provides an assessment of Japan’s macroeconomic … Quality Assessment Framework, July 2003 version. The assessment reveals that the data-producing agencies in Japan adhere to …

Japan’s position is one of the largest and richest economies in the world. Tokyo as a financial marketplace is not a … than captured by the empirical analysis. Apart from heading off tail risks, fiscal consolidation in Japan would have medium …