The 'Jane Austen' view of Japan

Rising female employment rate

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an economy in possession of a strong labour market must be in want of a central bank, as Jane Austen might have said, had she had the fortune to be a securities analyst rather than an acute observer of manners.

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