日本预定不久将向经济合作与发展组织(OECD)提出关于运用八项指标来研究各成员国的经济状况的建议。该建议是根据通产省大臣田村元的一项建议而提出的,田村在建议中呼吁采用更有效的手段来测定经济特性。此举的目的是想使各国致力于减少工业发达国家之间的资本和贸易流动的不平衡。同时 Japan is scheduled to submit its proposal to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) soon to examine eight countries’ economic conditions using eight indicators. The suggestion was made on the basis of a suggestion made by Tomoyo Motomichi, a councilor of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. Tamura called for a more effective measure of economic performance in his proposal. The aim is to try to make countries committed to reducing the imbalance of capital and trade flows among the industrialized countries. Simultaneously