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Government stimulus helps bring Japan out of recession

17/08/2009

A government stimulus package to boost consumer spending helped bring Japan out of recession in the second quarter of 2009, new figures have shown.The country’s gross domestic product increased by 0.9% in the second quarter, compared to the first. The Japanese economy, still the second-largest in the world, had contracted for each of the previous...

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