Japan gains excuse to delay sales tax hike and boost fiscal spending
Tokyo
FORMER World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz said on Wednesday that he has advised Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to delay a consumption tax increase scheduled for early next year, and to focus instead on implementing fiscal stimulus to speed up the country's recovery from economic recession.
The advice was given during the first of a series of meetings among leading economists and officials which host country Japan has convened in the…
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