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Low growth rates, deflation and increasing government debt were inherent challenges to the Japanese development over the past years. Now, prime minister Shinzo Abe is countering these challenges with a new economic policy model - the so called "Abenomics". Next to economic and monetary policy interventions, structural reforms are supposed to form the centerpiece of this policy model. And indeed the Japanese economy is recording positive growth rates since some months. Neverthess - in light of aging societies and high levels of goverment debt - the question remains, whether this growth will be sustainable.
Tuesday, 29. October 2013
11:30h
Welcome remarks
- Frank Priess
Deputy Head Department European and International Cooperation, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.
- Takayuki Miyashita
Chargé d'Affaires, Embassy of Japan to Germany
Keynote speech
Amb. Shotaro Oshima
Chairman, Institute for International Economic Studies, Tokio
12:00h
Panel discussion
- Amb. Shotaro Oshima
Chairman, Institute for International Economic Studies, Tokio
- Hubert Knirsch
Head of Unit International Economic and Financial Policy, Federal Foreign Office
- Prof. Dr. Werner Pascha
Chair of East Asian Economic Studies/Japan and Korea, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Prof. Dr. Patrick Köllner
Director of the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
13:00h
Lunch
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