The investment deficiency in Asia relative to rates of a decade ago amounts to an annual shortfall of $400 billion a year, with the decline in investment in Japan – a consequence of more than a decade of economic stagnation ­– accounting for more than half of the total. Moreover, investment rates in the newly industrialized economies of Asia have never recovered to their pre-1997-8 crisis levels, and investment rates in the rest of Asia outside China have fallen off as well.
在亚洲，与十年前的投资率相比较的投资缺口，每年为4000亿美金，而日本的投资下降—作为十多年以来经济滞胀的结果—则占其中的一半强。另外，亚洲新兴工业国家的投资率也从来没有恢复到1997-1998年金融危机以前的水平。而除中国以外的其他亚洲地区的投资率也下降了。