Financial Times (March 20)
2014/ 03/ 22 by jd in Global News
“The Japanese government is trying to encourage the country’s companies to increase the amount they invest. This is like trying to push water uphill. Japan as a whole and in terms of business already invests too much.” As a percentage of GDP, Japan already invests more than the U.S., Britain, France or Germany, but “the massive inefficiency of Japan’s capital investment has meant that the return on capital has also been extremely poor,” indeed the lowest of the G5 countries.
Japan, Government, Investment, U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Inefficiency, Capital, Return, G5
