Tanaka, Hideaki - In: OECD Journal on Budgeting 3 (2003) 2, pp. 105-137
The macroeconomic policy in Japan in the 1990s swung from fiscal expansion to fiscal consolidation and conversely. The efforts to restore soundness of public finance culminated in the Fiscal Structural Reform Act of 1997, which articulated several fiscal targets in the medium-term perspective....