However, the Tokai region -- the  6  frontrunner of Japan's economic expansion -- has shown a rise in the active job openings-to-applicants ratio to 1.8, indicating that the region's labor market conditions are much tighter than those of the national average.
For example, Russia is the world’s top exporter of palladium, which is key for producing catalytic converters.1 Ukraine supplies around 70% of the world’s neon gas, which is critical for semiconductor manufacturing. At the same time, the war poses significant risks to growth.