The Asahi Shinbun reports in its morning edition today on Japan’s national debt. The Finance Ministry reported on 25th February that in the last quarter of last year the country’s national debt rose, after remaining steady over the previous two quarters, to a record high of ¥838,005,000,000,000 (８３８兆５０億円). If this debt were divided equally amongst [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘SWF’
February 26, 2008
Japan & Middle East Sovereign Wealth Funds
Yoshiki Hatanaka, a senior consultant with Japan’s International Development Centre specializing in Middle Eastern economics, international oil, etc., writes in Sekai about Sovereign Wealth Funds. After providing an explanation of what SWFs are, an overview of the effect of the sub-prime crisis on them, and a brief analysis of Russian and Chinese SWFs, the [...]
