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  "title": "Asia-Pacific Regional Seminar 0609",
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  "summary": "The Japanese economy is now recovering from the pandemic amid strong policy support that has helped to mitigate the downturn.",
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          "text": "Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific"
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      "heading": "Seminar overview",
      "content": "- Event: Asia-Pacific Regional Seminar, Japan - Economic Outlook and Policy Priorities.\n- Hosts: IMF Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and the Policy Research Institute of the Ministry of Finance Japan.\n- Reference: Japan: 2022 Article IV Staff Report.\n- Participation: 110 people from 15 countries from Asia and beyond participated in the virtual seminar."
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      "heading": "Macroeconomic assessment and outlook for Japan",
      "content": "- Pre-COVID-19 policies under “Abenomics”:\n  - Helped ease financial conditions.\n  - Helped exit deflation.\n  - Helped raise labor market participation.\n  - Fell short on the deep reforms needed to raise productivity and achieve inclusive and sustainable growth.\n- Current recovery:\n  - The Japanese economy is recovering from the pandemic amid strong policy support that has helped to mitigate the downturn.\n- Source of analysis:\n  - Discussion drew on the recent IMF-Japan Article IV consultations and analytical work."
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    {
      "heading": "Policy priorities discussed",
      "content": "- Emphasis on deep reforms to:\n  - Raise productivity.\n  - Achieve inclusive and sustainable growth.\n- Role of continued policy support in:\n  - Supporting the recovery from the pandemic.\n  - Mitigating economic downturn effects."
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      "heading": "Speakers and their roles",
      "content": "- Ranil Salgado:\n  - Position: Assistant Director in the IMF’s Asia and Pacific Department (APD) and the IMF’s mission chief to Japan.\n  - Supervises work on: Maldives, Samoa, and Tonga.\n  - Past roles in APD: Mission chief to India, the Marshall Islands, Myanmar, and Nepal; chief of the Regional Studies Division; IMF Resident Representative in Singapore.\n  - IMF tenure: Over 25 years, including work in the Western Hemisphere; Research; and Strategy, Policy, and Review Departments.\n  - Prior experience: Strategy management consulting firm; teaching and research assistant positions at the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.\n  - Education: University of Pennsylvania (masters & PhD in economics); Harvard University (undergraduate in chemistry); Cambridge University (masters in biochemistry).\n  - Role at seminar: Presented on Japan’s economic outlook and policy priorities.\n- Tokuo Iwaisako:\n  - Position: Professor at Institute of Economic Research (IER), Hitotsubashi University.\n  - Teaching: Finance and macroeconomics at Hitotsubashi's Department of Economics and Business School.\n  - April 2022 appointment: Director of the Center for Intergenerational Studies at IER.\n  - Past positions: President of Nippon Finance Association (2018-2020); Principal Economist at the Institute of Policy Research, Ministry of Finance, Japan (April 2009 to March 2011).\n  - Education: Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1997; B.A. from Hitotsubashi University in 1990.\n  - Role at seminar: Discussion lead and presenter.\n- Moderators/hosts at opening:\n  - Chikahisa Sumi, Director, IMF Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific.\n  - Hironori Kawauchi, Executive Vice President, Policy Research Institute (PRI), Ministry of Finance Japan."
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      "heading": "Agenda and schedule (times listed as provided)",
      "content": "- 10:00-10:10:\n  - Introduction; Chikahisa Sumi, Director, IMF Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific; Hironori Kawauchi, Executive Vice President, Policy Research Institute (PRI), Ministry of Finance Japan;\n- 10:10-10:50:\n  - Presentation on Japan’s economic outlook and policy priorities; Ranil Salgado, Assistant Director, Asia and Pacific Department, IMF; Presentation;\n- 10:50-11:00:\n  - Discussion; Tokuo Iwaisako, Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University; Presentation;\n- 11:00-11:25:\n  - Q&A session\n- 11:25-11:30:\n  - Closing & post-event survey"
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      "heading": "Contact for press inquiries",
      "content": "- Press Officer: Yuko Maeda\n- Email: OAPMedia@IMF.org"
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