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Economic Survey of Japan 2009: Overcoming the global crisis: the need for a new growth model

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30-Sep-2009

As attention shifts to fiscal consolidation, sustaining output growth will depend increasingly on private domestic demand, requiring reforms, particularly in the labour market and the non-manufacturing sector.

Enhancing the productivity of the service sector in Japan

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08-Dec-2008

Randall S. Jones and Taesik Yoon

Labour productivity growth in the service sector, which accounts for 70% of Japan’s economic output and employment, has slowed markedly in recent years in contrast to manufacturing.

Japan's economic challenges

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17-Jul-2008

Randall Jones, OECD Observer n° 268

Japan's recent expansion is now under threat and more reforms are needed, but how?

Economic survey of Japan 2008: Enhancing the productivity of the service sector in Japan

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07-Apr-2008

To reverse the deceleration in productivity growth in services, Japan should eliminate entry barriers, accelerate regulatory reform, upgrade competition policy and reduce barriers to trade and FDI.

Upgrading Japan's innovation system to sustain economic growth

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07-Dec-2006

Randall S. Jones and Tadashi Yokoyama

Boosting the return on innovation requires upgrading education, strengthening competition and improving R&D policy. Economics Department Working Paper 527.

NERO 2006: The trade-off between efficiency and equality - the case of Japan - slides

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08-Jun-2006

Reiko Suzuki

Presentation by Reiko Suzuki (JCER) at the NERO meeting on the political economy of structural policy reform on 12 June 2006.

NERO 2006: The trade-off between efficiency and equality: the case of Japan

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08-Jun-2006

Reiko Suzuki

Presentation by Reiko Suzuki at the NERO meeting on the political economy of structural policy reform on 12 June 2006.

Economic Survey of Japan 2005: Removing the obstacles to faster growth

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20-Jan-2005

This chapter of the OECD Economic Survey of Japan 2005 discusses policies to accelerate growth through regulatory reform and measures to strengthen competition. It looks at a number of major initiatives, ...

OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform - Japan: Progress in Implementing Regulatory Reform

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19-Jul-2004

Since 1999, the Japanese government has introduced a number of measures to enhance regulatory quality and to promote regulatory reform, competition policy and market openness.

OECD Urges Japan to Keep up Regulatory Reform Momentum

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19-Jul-2004

Regulatory reform is already well underway in Japan but should be continued and strengthened if Japan is to reap all the opportunities of its current recovery, according to a new OECD report.