Japan in Crisis
by S. Maswood (Author)
About the Author
S. JAVED MASWOOD is a Lecturer in International Political Economy and Japanese Politics at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. He has published several books on international and Japanese political economy.
About this book
The long postwar economic boom in Japan ended in the early 1990s. Since then, the Japanese economy has stagnated and a series of reforms have failed to initiate economic growth. Maswood focuses on the period after the Asian Crisis and looks at the measures that have been taken to revitalize the banking sector and to overcome regulatory and administrative impediments to economic growth. Including analysis of the latest data from Japan, this is an important study of Japan's political economy and the implications of Japan's economic slowdown for regional and global economic prosperity.
Table of contents
1 Introduction......Page 12
2 Economic Stagnation in Japan......Page 28
3 Financial Reforms in Japan......Page 50
4 Corporate Reforms......Page 73
5 Regulatory Reforms......Page 98
6 Japan’s Regional Economy and the Asian Monetary Fund......Page 126
7 Conclusion......Page 155
Series: International Political Economy Series
Length: 179 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 2002 edition (October 11, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 033397719X
ISBN-13: 978-0333977194
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