Why, historically, has the level of FDI in Japan been so low? | Homework.Study.com (2024)

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• Why is inflation still so low in Japan?
• Explain three reasons why FDI has grown over the last 30 years.
• Why did Japan's post-war economic growth slow to a crawl in the 1990s?
• Why is the United States' marginal propensity to consume so much higher than that of other developed nations, e.g. Japan?
• Explain why it is undesirable to rely on FDI only.
• Why does a developed country like Japan have a lower trade to GDP ratio even though its economy is the third-largest?
• Why is Japan still considered as a rich country after decades of deflation and a debt of 250% GDP (2017)?
• Why does Japan have such a large debt and such low GDP growth if it's so productive?
• What are the macroeconomic reasons for Japan's persistent lack of inflation?
• Why are monopolies in Japan so strong?
• Why has Japan been unable to escape the middle income trap? Are there lessons from the Japanese examples, that other Asian countries could use to ensure that they can escape the Middle income trap?
• Why is FDI bad/good for the Indian economy? What are the implications of the FDI cap being raised from 26% to 49% in both the defense and the insurance sectors?
• Explain why a weak yen (the yen is the Japanese currency) might lead to greater profits for Japanese companies.
• If so much FDI is coming in India, then why is the value of the rupee against the dollar continuously depreciating?
• Why does Japan have negative interest rates? What are the pros and cons of this?
• Why is the Chinese savings rate so high?
• Why is there a widespread opinion that foreign direct investment (FDI) is necessary for growth or major development in India? After the MOM success, why can't India do the same in all fields without t
• Why has Taiwan's economic growth over the past 20 years been so much slower than South Korea's?
• Why do you think an average American tends to spend more than an average Japanese? Discuss.
• What are some of the reasons why a company might want to undertake foreign direct investment (FDI)?
• Why do countries like the United States, Germany, and Japan all seem to be converging to the same level of per capita GDP? Explain.
• Why are some nations economically strong and others economically weak?
• Why do developing countries encourage foreign investment?
• Why do low-income countries like Brazil, Egypt, or Vietnam have lower environmental standards than high-income countries like Germany, Japan, or the United States?
• What are the reasons for India's recent low economic growth figures?
• Why has the Japanese Yen not depreciated in spite of decades of high debt and money printing?
• Why has Hong Kong's historical inflation been so high?
• Why do Chinese families have such a high savings rate compared to other countries?
• Why has ZIRP been so successful in turning around the US economy, but not for Japan when similar monetary policies were implemented?
• Why is India a poor country despite rapid development?
• Why did the United States and Japan become so successful at industrialization and political mobilization after 1860?
• Why is the savings rate in China higher than that in the United States?
• Why is the Indian economy depreciating despite huge foreign investments? Which companies have invested during the Modi regime?
• Why do you suppose that Japan's currency, the yen, recently has tended to depreciate in relation to the Chinese yuan and South Korean won?
• Explain why it is so difficult for poor, less developed countries to generate investment in capital in order to increase productivity and growth, and therefore improve their standard of living.
• Discuss the reasons why developing countries so often use technology with an excessively high capital-labor ratio.
• Why are developing countries, like India, always in the status of poor fiscal policy?
• Why do some economic indexes or organizations consider the Four Asian Tigers as developing/emerging countries and only Japan as developed in Asia despite them having comparable if not higher HDIs/GDP
• Explain why high firm-level economies of scale promote both vertical and horizontal FDI whereas plant-level economies of scale promote only one of them.
• Why is China's economic growth rate faster than others?
• Why might growth rates of developed nations be lower than those of poorer countries?
• Why does a country like India has to take a loan from Japan for a bullet train project which costs a mere 17 billion even though India's economy is 2.8 trillion USD?
• Why do workers in developing countries have lower productivity and lower wages?
• Why are inflation rates so high in emerging countries?
• From an economic perspective, why is a worker in Ethiopia likely to earn much less than a worker in Japan?
• Is foreign direct investment bad or good for India's economic growth? If so, why?
• Why is India's economic growth rate lower than China's?
• Explain why it is so difficult for poor LDCs to generate investment in capital in order to increase productivity and growth and, therefore, improve their standard of living.
• Which of the following is not a reason why the Japanese tend to keep large amounts of cash? a. Banks have invested heavily in credit card technology. b. Japan has a low crime rate. c. Interest rates in Japan have been below 1% since the 1990s. d. Japan's
• Why is the tax revenue to GDP ratio of Scandinavian countries so high and that of Saudi Arabia so low?
• Why do smaller countries usually get most of the gains from the trade?
• Why does inflation in India average 9-12% (between 1983 and 2013) whereas in developed countries it's 2-3%?
• Why do some poor countries experience higher growth rates than developed countries such as the U.S.?
• Using economic concepts, explain why a worker in Ethiopia is likely to earn much less than a worker in Japan.
• Explain why is it difficult for high-income countries to achieve high growth rates.
• Why does China suddenly decrease their growth rate?
• Why is the Indian rupee depreciating even when oil is low and imports are costing less now?
• Why is investment money or capital flowing out of China?
• How can we explain why corporations engage in foreign direct investment (FDI)? Justify your answer.
• Why is the economic growth rate of the more developed countries lower?
• What are the reasons of lower economic growth in India?
• Give one important reason why India did not experience large capital outflow during the Asian financial crisis in 1997. Briefly explain why that factor was important.
• Give one important reason why India did not experience large capital outflow during the Asian financial crisis in 1997 and briefly explain why that factor was important?
• What are the reasons for slow economic growth in advanced economies?
• Explain the advantages and disadvantages of foreign direct investors (FDI) in Malaysia.
• Why is trade between countries declining?
• What is the reason behind china economy boom?
• Why is the World Bank trying to curb Chinese economic growth expectations?
• After the Japanese stock and asset bubble burst in late 1989, instead of depreciating, why did the yen appreciate against the dollar from 1990-1995?
• If China has so much money to invest in other countries, why don't they develop the poor parts of China?
• Why are wages in New Zealand low even though the cost of living is high?
• What is the reason behind the low price of Chinese products?
• Why are Western countries so rich when most of the manufacturing and production happens elsewhere?
• Why is the savings rate so low in the United States?
• Explain why is China still poor in per capita terms despite having the second-largest economy in the world in terms of real GDP.
• If Japan's public debt is domestic, and considered relatively harmless, why does Japan keep raising its sales tax to pay the debt, despite deflation?
• Why might international lending to poor countries not be well behaved?
• Depreciation boosts exports in most nations, but in India, it causes panic in the market. Why?
• Why is India's household savings rate declining?
• Why might countries wish to curb the foreign direct investment activities of its own MNC?s? Why might host countries wish to curb foreign direct investment?
• Why is Indian rupee depreciating despite strong GDP growth?
• Why don't Indians take depreciation of rupees as an opportunity to boost exports and reduce CAD?
• Explain why poor countries can improve GDP growth by raising saving rates and why rich countries cannot?
• Why do advanced countries promote research and development while subsidizing these investments?
• Why should Hong Kong run budget surplus?
• Why did Gal pagos syndrome happen in Japan but not Korea, which follows a similar economic model and is also culturally hom*ogeneous as Japan?
• Why is $30,000 per year considered low income in the USA, while in most countries in Europe, that's considered high? Is it because the cost of living in the USA is higher, or because Americans, on ave
• What are the reasons why a small country might not get the gains of trade?
• Why was the Thailand economy able to spark an economic contagion that led to the Asian financial crisis during 1997/1998, given that the Thai economy was a small one and not highly interconnected with
• Why the imports are to be subtracted from GDP in the expenditure approach?
• Why is the income per person so much higher in some countries than in others?
• Why is high inflation normal for a developing country but not for a developed one?
• FDI in the Indian retail industry. Why is the Indian retail industry so inviting?
• Explain reason for the smaller countries usually gets most of the gains from the trade.
• All of the following are reasons why China is unlikely to maintain high enough rates of productivity growth to catch-up with the standard of living in the United States except a. Because of the low bi
• a. Why might investment not respond positively to low interest rates during a recession? b. Why might investment not respond negatively to high interest rates during a boom?
• Why is Switzerland's inflation rate the lowest?
• Why has economic growth slowed in the advanced industrial nations?
• Why do developing countries have a high birth rate?
• Explain why rich countries subsidize high-tech firms in their economies.