The share of women in managerial and leadership roles in Japan – in both the public and private sector – are among the … lowest across the globe. This paper empirically examines what drives these large gender gaps in leadership in Japan, using … childcare work; (ii) Japan’s unique employment practices (non-regular employment, long in-person working hours); and (iii) the …

This paper tests whether Japan's key macro policy multipliers have declined since 2013, the year that Japan introduced … to GDP on economic activity in Japan. We find that both the expenditure and tax multipliers of Japan have fallen …, implying that the effectiveness of fiscal policy in Japan declined following the change in monetary policy. Moreover, we find …

This paper examines external adjustment in the United States, Japan and Germany from the perspective of net foreign …

This chapter focuses on IMF's technical assistance (TA) activities and describes Japan Administered Account for … IMF resources for technical assistance. Japan also provides financial support for a scholarship program for qualified …

This paper uses vector autoregressions to examine the monetary transmission mechanism in Japan. The empirical results …

the fiscal situation around. The new policy framework provides the Bank of Japan with the scope to ease the policy stance … past year, Japan maintained its traditional emphasis on pursuing further trade liberalization through the World Trade …

highlights a number of important issues in understanding the transmission of shocks between Japan and the Asia-Pacific region …. Structural reforms, information technology, and medium-term growth prospects in Japan have been discussed. The paper traced some …

The paper provides an assessment of fiscal transparency practices in Japan against the requirements of the IMF code of … respects in which Japan meets high standards of fiscal transparency. Recent initiatives have improved fiscal transparency …

root of Japan's lackluster economic performance over the past decade. The government has appropriately identified banking …