Japan labour shortages could thwart Abenomics: IMF report
It urges the authorities to tackle the "thorny" issue of increasing the supply of foreign workers
Tokyo
GROWING shortages of labour in Japan could hobble the world's third-largest economy and damage the effectiveness of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Abenomics policies, according to a working paper issued by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Japan's labour shortages are among the worst in the world, suggests the report, which urges the authorities to tackle the "thorny" issue of increasing the supply of foreign workers and to learn lessons from other countries including Singapore in this regard.
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