Several policymakers of the Liberal Democratic Party said at a meeting Thursday that private finance initiatives should be deployed to improve the nation's infrastructure and boost the ailing economy.
"Structural reform and economic recovery should be implemented at the same time," remarked Taro Aso, chairman of the LDP Policy Research Council.
Aso called for economic stimulus ideas, including measures that could feature in a proposed supplementary budget for fiscal 2001.
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