White Paper on International Economy and Trade 2010

Chapter 1 : Current and Future Status of the Global Economy in Transition

Section 1 : Current status of the global economy and movement to alter its structure

1. Current status of the global economy and future forecast (PDF:3,452KB)
2. Issues and Handling of the International Economic Framework Which Became Clear Because of the Global Economic Crisis -Diversification of the Global Economy- (PDF: 544KB)

Section 2 : Major countries and regions: current status and issues

1. The economy of the United States (PDF: 874KB)
2. The European economy (PDF: 510KB)
3. The Chinese Economy (PDF: 879KB)
4. Other Asian Economy (PDF: 1,917KB)
5. Economies of the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Russia (PDF:1,606KB)

Chapter 2: Japan growing with Asia's development-Asia-Pacific framework toward sustainable growth

Section 1 : Asia increasing its presence in the world

1. Asia in the center of the world growth (PDF: 114KB)
2. Asian economy that shows quick recovery (PDF: 799KB)
3. China's outward investment that is enhancing its presence in the world (PDF: 290KB)

Section 2 : East Asia: Development from production networks into production/sales network

1. Production network in East Asia and the expanding presence of China (PDF: 545KB)
2. Weakening Japan's presence in the East Asia network (PDF: 90KB)
3. Formation of the East Asia network with Japanese companies' expansion in Asia (PDF: 146KB)
4. Changes of East Asia production networks across the global financial crisis (PDF: 265KB)
5. Changes in the processing trade in world's factory China (PDF: 146KB)
6. Developing from production networks to production and sales networks (PDF: 138KB)

Section 3 : Expansion of Asian consumer market. Targeting to be a quality market

1. Enhancing Asian consumer market (PDF: 259KB)
2. Current status and trend of consumption in Asia (PDF: 174KB)
3. Diversified Asia's sales models (PDF: 113KB)
4. For further expansion of Asian consumption (PDF: 226KB)

Section 4 : Japan's contribution to the infrastructure development in Asia

1. Industrial clusters in Asia and the progress of urbanization (PDF: 201KB)
2. Mounting infrastructure needs along with economic growth (PDF: 638KB)
3. For the infrastructure development in Asia (PDF: 485KB)

Section 5 : Common Agendas to be Solved by Asia to achieve sustainable growth

1. Aging society in Asia (PDF: 178KB)
2. Issues on energy, environment, food and water resource (PDF: 244KB)

Section 6 : Tightened economic ties in Asia-Pacific

1. Asia-Pacific increasing its presence (PDF: 212KB)
2. Regional economic integration expanding from Asia (PDF: 293KB)
3. APEC regional cooperation for energy (PDF: 54KB)
4. For Japan-chaired APEC 2010 (PDF: 99KB)

Chapter 3 : Japan's current situation and direction of progress after the economic crisis

Section 1 : The future image of Japan that corresponds to global changes

1. Summary of Japan's economic situation (PDF:1,194KB)
2. Factors that support the globalization of Japanese economy (PDF: 420KB)
3. Economic development models in major countries (PDF:1,018KB)
4. For new growth in our nation (PDF: 188KB)

Section 2 : Course of Japan's external economic policy

1. Respond to the structure of world's new demand (PDF: 4,414KB)
2. Realizing Japan's Domestic Demand and Overseas Demand cycles (PDF:2,151KB)
3. Contribution to the global economic infrastructure (PDF:1,735KB)

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