http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2009/02/09/japan-a-twenty-years-crisis/ Economics, Politics and Public Policy in East Asia and the Pacific Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:28:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2009/02/09/japan-a-twenty-years-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-10686 Doug Ostrom Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:23:22 +0000 http://www.eastasiaforum.org/?p=1753#comment-10686 Even when Japan had supposedly shaken off the lost decade two years ago, economic growth depended entirely on export growth, especially to China, and plant and equipment investment, presumably partly related to that export growth. So in retrospect, it should have been clear they were still "lost" at the time. Even when Japan had supposedly shaken off the lost decade two years ago, economic growth depended entirely on export growth, especially to China, and plant and equipment investment, presumably partly related to that export growth. So in retrospect, it should have been clear they were still “lost” at the time.

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