Japan: Selected Issues

November 7, 1996

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Japan: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1996) accessed November 22, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper analyzes Japan’s medium- and long-term fiscal challenges. It discusses the initiatives that will be necessary to cope with Japan’s medium- and long-term fiscal challenges. It describes medium- and long-term projections of the fiscal position, and assesses the size of the consolidation measures needed to restore long-term fiscal sustainability. The paper explores possible options for consolidation and offers a representative package of such measures. The paper also describes the projected baseline path for the long-term fiscal balance, incorporating the long-term pension reform plan formulated in 1994.

Subject: Bank credit, Banking, Credit, Employment, Expenditure, Foreign exchange, Labor, Money, Pensions, Real exchange rates

Keywords: Bank credit, Collection deposit, CR, Credit, Deposit certificate, Employment, Equity price, FCI concepts, FCI measure, GDP, Global, Interest rate, ISCR, Real exchange rates, Western Europe

Publication Details

Pages:

210
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 1996/114
Stock No:

1JPNEA0021996
ISBN:

9781451820522
ISSN:

1934-7685

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