OECD Economic Surveys: Japan 2009


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This 2009 edition of OECD's periodic review of Japan's economy includes chapters on overcoming the global crisis, improving the efficiency of the banking sector, the fiscal response to the crisis and fiscal sustainability, health care reform, and ...




OECD Economic Surveys: Japan 1998


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OECD's 1998 survey of Japan's economy. This edition includes chapters covering origins of the current difficulties, policy responses and current prospects, structural reform, and reinvigorating business sector dynamism.




OECD Economic Surveys: Japan 1999


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This 1999 edition of OECD's periodic review of Japan's economy examines recent economic developments, policies and prospects and includes special features on the tax system and public sector reforms.




OECD Economic Surveys: Korea 2020


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Economic activity has contracted less in Korea than in other OECD countries, thanks to the prompt and effective reaction of the authorities to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus and to the wide-ranging government support to households and businesses. Nevertheless, the pandemic generates strong headwinds.




OECD Economic Surveys: United Kingdom 2020


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Like many countries, the United Kingdom has been hit severely by the COVID-19 outbreak. A strict lockdown was essential to contain the pandemic but halted activity in many key sectors. While restrictions have eased, the country now faces a prolonged period of disruption to activity and jobs, which risks exacerbating pre-existing weak productivity growth, inequalities, child poverty and regional disparities. On-going measures to prevent a second wave of infections will need to be carefully calibrated to manage the economic impact.




OECD Economic Surveys: Korea 2018


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Economic growth picked up in 2017, but reforms are needed to sustain Korea's convergence toward the income levels in the most advanced countries. Its labour productivity is 46% below the top half of OECD countries, reflecting problems in the service sector. In addition, productivity in small ...




OECD Economic Surveys: Japan 2000


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This 2000 edition of OECD's periodic review of Japan's economy examines recent economic developments, policies and prospects and includes a special feature on improving the performance of public spending.




Restoring Japan's Economic Growth


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Criticism of current Japanese macroeconomic and financial policies is so wide spread that the reasons for it are assumed to be self-evident. In this volume, Adam Posen explains in depth why a shift in Japanese fiscal and monetary policies, as well as financial reform, would be in Japan's self-interest. He demonstrates that Japanese economic stagnation in the 1990s is the result of mistaken fiscal austerity and financial laissez-faire rather than a structural decline of the "Japan Model." The author outlines a program for putting the country back on the path to solid economic growth - primarily through permanent tax cuts and monetary stabilization - and draws broader lessons from the recent Japanese policy actions that led to the country's continuing stagnation.







OECD Economic Surveys: Japan 2001


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This 2001 edition of OECD's periodic survey of the Japanese economy examines recent economic developments, policies and prospects and includes a special feature on health care reform as well as an annex on bad loans in the banking sector.