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Japan's Lost Decade: Origins, Consequences and Prospects for Recovery

Gary Saxonhouse (Editor), Robert Stern (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-1917-7
Paperback
132 pages
March 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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This volume explores the origins of Japan’s current economic crisis and assesses the country’s prospects for recovery.

  • An exploration of the origins and consequences of Japan’s current economic crisis.

  • Examines the collapse of the equity and real estate market bubbles in the late 1980s.

  • Analyses the failure of Japanese monetary and fiscal policies to reverse the ensuing economic decline.

  • Evaluates unorthodox options available to policy makers that might enable Japan to recover from its ‘lost decade’.

  • Suggests that Japan’s prospects for economic recovery are still uncertain.