Since unveiling his economic reform plan, dubbed “Abenomics,” after returning to office two years ago, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (pronounced “ah-bay”) has been dogged by doubts about his commitment to serious structural reform. His early moves of fiscal stimulus and monetary easing gave a short term boost to the world’s third-largest economy, but it fell back into recession in 2012 before emerging last quarter with a 2.2% growth rate.
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