The success of barriers such as a wall or fence depend on their scale and how heavily guarded they are, said Reece Jones, a political geography professor at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa and who has written about money spent on border security projects and their con...
Japan is an important case example because in 1990, Japan had a GDP of $3.1 trillion and the US was at $5.7 trillion. Japan for many years was the second largest economy. But today Japan’s GDP is what it was in 1995. The Bank of Japan bailed out t...