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"It is not surprising that monetary and fiscal policies have failed to produce sustained recovery in Japan. The origins of stagnation were on the supply side" Do you agree?

From the bursting of the stock and land price bubble in 1990, the Japanese economy has been stagnating in a low growth, disinflationary state. Growth has averaged 1.5% for the period 1991 - 2000 compared to 4% for the period 1979-1990, and has been negative or virtually so between 1998 and 2002 (bar 2000 where it was 2.8%). Inflation has been negative since 1995, and greater than -1% since 2000. Even the Japanese unemployment ratio has doubled over the period, and exceeded the USA's for the first time post war in 1999. Since a widespread and prolonged stagnation must have deeper explanations than merely a burst bubble for its persistence, the question infers that the problems are structural on the supply side, and that this is the reason neither monetary or fiscal policy efforts have been able to produce a recovery. First then I will analyse Japanese fiscal and monetary policies in this period, and then analyse the competing explanations of the stagnation picture, to evaluate if they can explain Japan's inability to extract itself from the "lost decade".[…]

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