Japan sees 1.5% rise in fiscal 2015
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JAPAN’S government expects the economy to grow 1.5 percent in fiscal 2015 after adjustments for price moves, a slight upgrade from its previous forecast, due to an expected acceleration in consumer spending.
The government forecast overall consumer prices to rise only 1.4 percent in fiscal 2015 in a sign of the difficulty the Bank of Japan faces in meeting its 2 percent inflation target.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet will use these forecasts to guide its fiscal and economic policies as the government tries to accelerate growth after a surprise recession last year.
The government previously forecast the economy would grow a real 1.4 percent in the fiscal year starting from March, but it raised its forecast after delaying a rise in sales tax originally scheduled for October.
Economic growth is also expected to remain firm in fiscal 2015 as wages rise and a decline in oil prices supports corporate profits and consumer spending, said a Cabinet Office official.
Japan’s government expects the economy to grow a nominal 2.7 percent in fiscal 2015, just below its previous expectation of 2.8 percent growth, according to forecasts that the cabinet approved yesterday.
For fiscal 2014, which ends in March, the government expects the economy to contract a real 0.5 percent, which is a downgrade from its previous forecast for 1.2 percent real growth, as consumer spending slumped.
Japan’s economy slipped into recession last year as households cut back on spending after the government raised the sales tax to 8 percent from 5 percent in April. Many economists say Japan returned to growth toward the end of last year as exports and corporate investment picked up.
The BOJ has been buying government bonds and other risk assets to depress yields and push inflation to 2 percent sometime around fiscal 2015.
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