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World Business Report: Can Abenomics Save Japan's Economy?

Shinzo Abe Announces His Economic Plan

24/06/2014

Can Abenomics Save Japan's Economy?

BBC World Service - World Business Report, Can Abenomics Save Japan's Economy?

Japan's PM has announced a new economic plan. Can it help his country's moribund economy?

Japan's PM has a new economic plan. Can it help his country's moribund economy? Plus, as China's property market falls, will it repeat mistakes made in Japan 25 years ago?

In this special edition of World Business Report, we examine the economic fortunes of the Rising Sun of Japan, and the Chinese Dragon.

Japan's Prime Minister has unveiled a new raft of measures aimed at reviving his country's moribund economy. We visit a Japanese seaside resort to take the economic temperature, and discuss the wisdom of Abenomics with BBC economics correspondent Andrew Walker.

Plus we're in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou. As property prices fall sharply, is China repeating the mistakes Japan made a quarter of a century ago?

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