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Seki Obata

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Seki Obata is a professor at Keio University's Graduate School of Business Administration and a former official in Japan’s Ministry of Finance.

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The Missing Arrow of Abenomics

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May 15, 2015 Seki Obata & Georges Desvaux argue that Japan’s economic future depends on whether its companies can boost productivity growth.

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