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Japan: 2018 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Japan

November 27, 2018

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Japan: 2018 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Japan, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2018) accessed November 7, 2024

Summary

The rapid aging and shrinking of Japan’s population will dominate economic policy making in coming decades—impelling a fresh look at the objectives and tools of Abenomics. Six years of Abenomics have yielded some important results, but achieving sustained high growth and durable reflation, while also tackling debt sustainability and a shifting global economic landscape, will require strengthened policies.

Subject: Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), Banking, Consumption taxes, Crime, Inflation, Labor, Population and demographics, Prices, Taxes

Keywords: Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), Asia and Pacific, BoJ's target, Consumption taxes, CR, Global, Government bond bond yield, Guide inflation expectation, Headline CPI inflation, Inflation, ISCR, Japan's Cabinet Office, Money market rate, Price pressure

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    93

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2018/333

  • Stock No:

    1JPNEA2018001

  • ISBN:

    9781484386729

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685

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