Posts Tagged ‘public spending’

Japan’s Election: How Significant Is The DPJ’s Landslide Victory?

Despite the historical significance of the DPJ’s landslide election victory on August 30, the new government will face the enormous challenge of reforming Japan’s bureaucracy. Yoel Sano from BMI’s Asia desk believes it will take a long time before the economy will reap the benefits of this historic change.

 
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Exodus From Iceland

On Friday I outlined how the economic problems in Latvia were impacting upon the political scene. So, as I glanced around the crisis-hit countries of Europe for signs of social and political changes, I chanced upon recently released Icelandic immigration figures, which show a massive turnaround in local migration trends occurred in 2008. Immigration fell… [Read more]


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