{"id":558021,"date":"2026-07-24T21:33:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/558021\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T21:33:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:33:42","slug":"economists-skeptical-japan-can-grow-its-way-out-of-debt-nikkei-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/558021\/","title":{"rendered":"Economists skeptical Japan can grow its way out of debt: Nikkei survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Public-private investment seen as inadequate for goal of steadily lowering debt-to-GDP ratio<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20260723N tokyo office buildings\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Economists are skeptical that the Japanese government&#8217;s investment push will spur enough growth to drive down debt relative to GDP.\u00a0(Photo by Rie Ishii)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Economists largely doubt the Japanese government can achieve its goal of steadily lowering the country&#8217;s ratio of debt to gross domestic product,\u00a0a Nikkei survey finds,\u00a0voicing skepticism about the government&#8217;s\u00a0fiscal plan that relies on high growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Public-private investment seen as inadequate for goal of steadily lowering debt-to-GDP ratio Economists are skeptical that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,44486,1575,9566,184,9563,85,46,5777,1437,2374,252873,6297,2028],"class_list":["post-558021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-can","tag-debt","tag-economists","tag-economy","tag-grow","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-its","tag-japan","tag-nikkei","tag-skeptical","tag-survey","tag-way"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}