Country Report:

40 Duke Street April average banks bonds boost capital investment cars China companies construction Consumer prices corporate cost Country Profile Country Reports current-account surplus decline Diet domestic demand economic Economist Intelligence Unit election employment exchange rate expenditure Exports fob faction factor income fall firms fiscal funds Germany Gross domestic product Hata House of Councillors Housing starts imports increase industry International inventory J-curve effect Japan Japan New Party Japanese Kiichi Miyazawa labour land prices loans major manufacturing Michio Watanabe minister Ministry of Finance Miyazawa money supply overseas package percentage points plans political reform production Qtr 3 Qtr quarter of 1992 SDPJ seasonally adjusted sector Shinseito Source South Korea stronger yen Tokyo trade surplus Tsutomu Hata United Kingdom wage year-on-year yen appreciation Zambia