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GDP starts 2013 strongly

Japan’s healthy-looking GDP data are the first substantial piece of good economic news under the Abe government. It is debatable just how much of the acceleration is due to “Abenomics” and how much is simply a temporary rebound from earlier weakness that would have happened anyway. Nonetheless, 2013 has got off to a flying start.

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