Japan: Selected Issues

September 5, 2003

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Japan: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2003) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

The Selected Issues paper analyzes the health of the corporate sector, areas of vulnerability, and the effect of corporate restructuring in Japan. It reviews the deflation and associated economic problems of Japan, demonstrates the impact of fiscal policies on public debt, and estimates the expenditure and revenue adjustments needed to restrain the growth of debt. It also analyzes the issues in the Japanese labor market, structural developments, changes in the behavior of stakeholders, policy issues on employment insurance, and the social safety net.

Subject: Deflation, Employment, Labor, Prices, Public debt, Unemployment

Keywords: A number of job-seeker, CR, Debt-equity ratio, Deflation, Employment, Europe, Financial statement data, Firm, ISCR, Medium-sized firm, Nonviable firm, Unemployment, Unemployment benefit, Worker

Publication Details

Pages:

116
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2003/282
Stock No:

1JPNEA0022003
ISBN:

9781451820560
ISSN:

1934-7685

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