CURING JAPAN’S ECONOMIC MALAISE

For Japan to emerge from its severe and protracted economic doldrums nothing will help as much as abandoning its deep-seated commitment to an export-led economic strategy. Toward this end, Japan should remove the pervasively preferential treatment favoring its export firms and industries, and protec...

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Published inStraddling Economics and Politics p. 165
Main Author Charles Wolf
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Published RAND Corporation 11.09.2002
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Abstract For Japan to emerge from its severe and protracted economic doldrums nothing will help as much as abandoning its deep-seated commitment to an export-led economic strategy. Toward this end, Japan should remove the pervasively preferential treatment favoring its export firms and industries, and protecting them, along with domestic industries, from potentially competitive imports. Japan’s export-led strategy should be replaced by an “import-accommodating” one, which would not only benefit Japan but would contribute significantly to the economic recovery of the entire Asian region, as well. This prescription is heretical. According to standard economic analysis, imports are deflationary while exports are expansionary.
AbstractList For Japan to emerge from its severe and protracted economic doldrums nothing will help as much as abandoning its deep-seated commitment to an export-led economic strategy. Toward this end, Japan should remove the pervasively preferential treatment favoring its export firms and industries, and protecting them, along with domestic industries, from potentially competitive imports. Japan’s export-led strategy should be replaced by an “import-accommodating” one, which would not only benefit Japan but would contribute significantly to the economic recovery of the entire Asian region, as well. This prescription is heretical. According to standard economic analysis, imports are deflationary while exports are expansionary.
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Commerce
Development economics
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Economic conditions
Economic development
Economic fluctuations
Economic growth
Economic recessions
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