Japan: Selected Issues

August 8, 2005

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Japan: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed December 26, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper for Japan illustrates the impact of fiscal and structural reforms on the Japanese and world economies. Japan faces a sizable fiscal deficit, against a backdrop of weak trend growth and growing imbalances in the world economy. Moreover, upward pressure on health care and social security spending owing to an aging population will add significantly to strains on public resources in the near future. The Japanese government is taking a range of measures aimed at raising productivity growth and stabilizing the public debt in relation to GDP over the medium term.

Subject: Aging, Agricultural policy, Agricultural sector, Bank soundness, Banking, Economic sectors, External position, Financial sector policy and analysis, Foreign assets, Population and demographics

Keywords: Aging, Agricultural policy, Agricultural sector, Asia and Pacific, Bank, Bank soundness, Behavior, CR, Foreign assets, Global, Household behavior regards saving, Illustrative saving projection, ISCR, Japan, Productivity-enhancing reform, Rate, Saving rate, Section B reviews household savings behavior

Publication Details

Pages:

66
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2005/272
Stock No:

1JPNEA2005001
ISBN:

9781451820645
ISSN:

1934-7685

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