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Japan: Personal capital transaction openness index (1=fully liberalized) (IMF)

1index (0-1) · 20130.0% since 2003

Personal capital transaction openness index captures the ability to conduct transactions initiated on behalf of private persons and intended to benefit other private persons. It includes transactions involving property to which the promise of a return to the owner with payments of interest is attached (e.g., loans or settlements of debt in their country of origin by immigrants) and transfers effected free of charge to the beneficiary (for example, gifts and endowments, loans, inheritances and legacies, and emigrants' assets). The index does not have sub- components. (1=fully liberalized). Annual figures for Japan from 2000 to 2013.