{"id":931376,"date":"2026-10-13T10:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T10:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/931376\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T10:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T10:58:09","slug":"imf-raises-japans-growth-forecast-for-2026-to-0-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/931376\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF raises Japan\u2019s growth forecast for 2026 to 0.7%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok \u2013 The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday raised its economic growth projection for Japan to 0.7% for 2026, up 0.1 percentage point from its July forecast.<\/p>\n<p>The IMF\u2019s World Economic Outlook report cited \u201cfiscal support measures partly cushioning the impact from higher energy prices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s growth rate is expected to be 0.7% in 2027, unchanged from the July forecast. The report said that growth will stabilize at the same level next year \u201cas the energy shock dissipates and monetary policy gradually normalizes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The IMF raised its global growth projection by 0.1 point to 3.1% for 2026, while its 2027 forecast was left unchanged at 3.4%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlobal economic activity has proven resilient once again\u201d because strong investment in artificial intelligence has helped mitigate the damage from geopolitics-driven disruptions, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>However, the report said that \u201crisks are skewed to the downside.\u201d A further escalation in the Middle East will likely weigh on growth, and a reassessment of AI-related profitability and productivity prospects could sharply reduce investment, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bangkok \u2013 The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday raised its economic growth projection for Japan to 0.7% for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":931377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[62,45,49,48,46,15805,17415],"class_list":["post-931376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-ai","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-imf","tag-japanese-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}