Japan 2018 Staff Report
IMF Staff Country Reports, November 27, 2018
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Bibliographic details
- Published: November 27, 2018
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484386729.002
Main findings
- The rapid aging and shrinking of Japan’s population will dominate economic policy making in coming decades.
- Six years of Abenomics have yielded some important results.
- Achieving sustained high growth and durable reflation, while also tackling debt sustainability and a shifting global economic landscape, will require strengthened policies.
Policy challenges and priorities
- Demographics: rapid aging and population shrinkage as the central long-term constraint on policy.
- Reflation and growth: build on Abenomics’ achievements to reach sustained high growth and durable reflation.
- Fiscal sustainability: address debt sustainability amid demographic and global shifts.
- Global environment: adapt policy to a shifting global economic landscape.
Subjects and keywords (as listed)
- Subjects: 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 metadata and statistics
- Publication title: Japan: 2018 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Japan
- Date: November 27, 2018
- Pages: 93
- Volume: 2018
- Issue: 333
- Series: Country Report No. 2018/333
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484386729.002
- Stock No: 1JPNEA2018001
- ISBN: 9781484386729
- ISSN: 1934-7685
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