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Child Well-being in Japan: The high cost of economic success
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Child Well-being in Japan: The high cost of economic success

This Innocenti Occasional Paper examines the counter-intuitive relationship between Japan’s continuing economic achievement and the good of its child population. It would seem that adults and the elderly are harvesting the greater share of the benefits of economic success.