Japan’s government has scaled back its public investment spending dramatically since the 1990s but it remains high by international standards. The quality of the country’s infrastructure is therefore unsurprisingly high, and the marginal benefits of spending even more on it are low. Nonetheless, public construction is currently increasing. The government would be better advised to divert funds to other, more productive, uses.
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