TY - BOOK ID - 84543483 TI - Japan : Selected Issues. AU - International Monetary Fund. AU - International Monetary Fund PY - 2005 SN - 1462316093 1452763577 1280888695 9786613730008 1451882742 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Banks and Banking KW - Exports and Imports KW - Finance: General KW - Agribusiness KW - Demography KW - Public Finance KW - Banks KW - Depository Institutions KW - Micro Finance Institutions KW - Mortgages KW - Economics of the Elderly KW - Economics of the Handicapped KW - Non-labor Market Discrimination KW - Agriculture: General KW - Agricultural Policy KW - Food Policy KW - International Investment KW - Long-term Capital Movements KW - General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation KW - Population & demography KW - International economics KW - Banking KW - Finance KW - Macroeconomics KW - Investment & securities KW - Aging KW - Agricultural policy KW - Foreign assets KW - Bank soundness KW - Population and demographics KW - Financial sector policy and analysis KW - External position KW - Economic sectors KW - Agricultural sector KW - Banks and banking KW - Population aging KW - Agriculture and state KW - Investments, Foreign KW - Agricultural industries KW - Japan UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84543483 AB - This Selected Issues paper for Japan illustrates the impact of fiscal and structural reforms on the Japanese and world economies. Japan faces a sizable fiscal deficit, against a backdrop of weak trend growth and growing imbalances in the world economy. Moreover, upward pressure on health care and social security spending owing to an aging population will add significantly to strains on public resources in the near future. The Japanese government is taking a range of measures aimed at raising productivity growth and stabilizing the public debt in relation to GDP over the medium term. ER -