White Paper on International Economy and Trade 2009

• Contents (PDF: 8KB)
• Explanatry Notes (PDF: 20KB)
• Introduction (PDF: 128KB)

Chapter 1: Global economy facing challenges: current status and issues

Section 1

Global economy going through financial crisis toward economic crisis (PDF: 1,470KB)

Section 2 : Various issues exposed by the global financial crisis and responses by countries and regions

• 1. U.S. economy facing balance sheet adjustments (PDF: 859KB)
• 2. European economy facing various problems as a microcosm of the world (PDF: 491KB)
• 3. Chinese economy shifts emphasis to expansion of domestic demand (PDF: 885KB)
• 4. Indian economy remaining relatively firm despite the impact of the global economic downturn (PDF: 1,020KB)
• 5. ASEAN Economy facing need to expand domestic demand amid an export plunge (PDF: 460KB)
• 6. Challenges for emerging countries and resource-rich countries susceptible to changes in resource and food prices (PDF: 1,928KB)
• 7. Asian economy expected to act as the growth engine of the global economy (PDF: 581KB)

Chapter 2: Japan's path to cope with the world economic crisis

Section 1

Present situation of the world economic crisis and the Japanese economy (PDF: 702KB)

Section 2 : Restructuring of Japanese global strategies urged by world economic crisis

• 1. Changes in the structure of the global economy due to the world economic crisis (PDF: 733KB)
• 2. Global business environment and Japanese-owned companies’ global strategies after the world economic crisis (PDF: 962KB)
• 3. Toward promoting Japan - turning crisis into opportunity (PDF: 1,154KB)
• 4. Toward finding solutions to global issues (PDF: 539KB)

Section 3

Free trade system threatened by the global economic crisis (PDF: 308KB)

Chapter 3: Japan's global economic strategy and external economic policy

Section 1

Direction of external economic policy (PDF: 750KB)

Section 2 : Four Priorities for Foreign Economic Policy

• 1. Integrated domestic and foreign economic measures (PDF: 2,695KB)
• 2. Promotion of volume zone innovation (PDF: 2,103KB)
• 3. Global development of the low carbon revolution (PDF: 444KB)
• 4. Multi-layer cooperation including industrial cooperation with resource rich countries (PDF: 366KB)

• Supplementary Notes (PDF: 454KB)
• References (PDF: 72KB)
• Appendix Tables (PDF: 81KB)