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Motivating the new initiatives were delays and snags in delivering cash handouts to families and firms at the height of the coronavirus crisis. Online applications ran into…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB258056
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Priorities include digitalisation, a greener society, regional vitality and increased child support. Perhaps the most strategically important element, however, is the aim of…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB262732
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He has held high-profile posts since 2015, as minister for foreign affairs and then defence during Shinzo Abe's administration. He now oversees Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB259767
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All this and more will be necessary as he confronts entrenched interests embedded by decades of rarely interrupted Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) rule.
Major Japanese and South Korean conglomerates are driving adoption of automated manufacturing, digitalisation of supply chains and other technologies critical to the region’s…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB263359
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Household consumption fuelled half of the rise as government grants to families supported purchases and jobs. The usual comparison with year-earlier figures is blurred because the…
In a last-minute move, seven South-east Asian countries -- Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Brunei -- were added to the initiative, joining…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB270589
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Modelling lower rates for longer.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB236355
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The agency aims to digitise administrative procedures in 31 policy areas, such as elderly care and childrearing, while standardising systems across all government levels within…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB264070
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Prospects for the global economy in 2019.