「人に思い切った投資」実行　岸田首相、「成長と分配」車座対話

　岸田文雄首相は１８日午前、首相官邸で経済学者らと意見交換する「車座対話」を行い、政権の看板政策である「成長と分配の好循環」の具体化を議論した。首相は「１９日に決定する経済対策で人への投資を思い切ってやる」と表明。非正規労働者の職業訓練など３年間で４０００億円の施策パッケージを盛り込む方針を改めて示した。
　首相は対話で「人を重視しながら新しい投資や成長を引き出して好循環を完成させる。市場に委ねるだけでなく、官民が役割を果たすべきだ」と述べた。
　日銀出身の渡辺努東大大学院教授は、１９９６年以降の名目賃金が上昇しておらず、「分配はうまくいっていない」と指摘。「賃金が上昇しないので企業は値上げできない。価格と賃金の好循環が成長につながる」と強調した。（2021/11/18-12:31）

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged Thursday to "invest drastically in people" as a way to achieve his key policy goal of creating a positive cycle of growth and distribution.
   Holding a round-table meeting with economists at the prime minister's office, Kishida said that such investments will be made as part of a set of economic measures to be finalized Friday.
   He reiterated his plan to include a package in which 400 billion yen will be used over three years for professional training aimed at nonregular workers.
   "We'll complete the positive cycle by encouraging new investments and growth, while placing priority on people," Kishida said at the round-table. "The public and private sectors should actively fulfill this role, instead of leaving it to the market."
   Tsutomu Watanabe, professor at the University of Tokyo's graduate school who was formerly an official at the Bank of Japan, said that distribution is not working well in Japan, noting that nominal wages have not risen since 1996.