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BOJ reviews downward forecast of Japanese economic growth rate...consumption stagnation due to emergency국제/일본 2021. 3. 21. 16:54
The Japan Bank of Japan (BOJ) has undertaken a review to lower the forecast of Japan's economic growth rate for the 2020 fiscal year (April 2020 to March 2021) at the financial policy decision meeting held from 20 to 21 Reported.
The reason is that personal consumption, which accounts for more than half of gross domestic product (GDP), is more likely to stagnate than originally expected as the Japanese government issued an emergency declaration following the re-proliferation of Corona 19.
The Japanese government recently recorded around 7,000 new confirmed cases a day, and as the momentum of the third epidemic did not decline, on the 8th, Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefecture, Saitama Prefecture, Chiba Prefecture, etc. Emergency declarations have been issued in four areas in the metropolitan area.
Today, three major regions in Kansai, including Osaka Prefecture, Kyoto Prefecture, and Hyogo Prefecture, as well as Aichi Prefecture, Gifu Prefecture, Fukuoka Prefecture, and Tochigi Prefecture. (栃木) Prefecture is also planning to declare an emergency.If an emergency is declared, consumption for food and lodging is expected to decrease further, and there are observations that the economic growth rate is highly likely to record negative again in the first quarter of this year (January to March).
Even within the BOJ as a whole, the newspaper reported that a downward revision of the growth rate forecast is inevitable.
The real growth rate for this fiscal year, announced by the BOJ in the'Economic and Inflation Forecast Report' in October last year, was negative 5.5%.'국제 > 일본' 카테고리의 다른 글