... reduce their fiscal deficits, which had ballooned with COVID-19 testing costs. fiscal policy economic recovery youth unemployment real estate crisis US-China conflict But it has not been easy to revive the country’s domestic consumption, which has been depressed under a prolonged economic...

... of the nation's finances. © 2010 By the Regents of the University of California Japanese politics budget politics fiscal policy budget institutions public spending GENE PARK The Politics of Budgeting in Japan How Much Do Institutions Matter? ABSTRACT In the past decade, the Japanese government has...