I stay at home and look after the children http://al4a.fun al4a.com One sign of how little investment is accomplishing is that the region's current accounts, the sum of an economy's trade balance and its investment income, are steadily evaporating. The overall current account surplus in Asia's 11 largest economies dropped from 6.3 percent of aggregate GDP in 2007 to 1.6 percent last year, according to Nomura's calculations. Japan's once formidable surplus has dropped almost to zero and India, Indonesia and Hong Kong have all slipped into deficit.