WASHINGTON – The International Monetary Fund now expects Japan’s economy to contract 0.5 percent in 2002, an upward revision from its April projection of a 1 percent shrinkage, a senior IMF official said Monday.
The economy is “on a moderate recovery path,” IMF Deputy Managing Director Shigemitsu Sugisaki said in an interview.
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