Japan pursues an ill-timed fiscal stimulus
Takaichi Sanae, Japan’s prime minister since October, positions herself as heir to the late Abe Shinzo, the country’s longest-serving leader. Many expected her to revive his “Abenomics” agenda, with its “three arrows” of loose money, expansionary fiscal policy and structural reform. Two plans published this month instead signal a departure.
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