SINGAPORE: Surprisingly strong third-quarter economic growth in Japan is the latest sign the global economy is coming out of the slump it fell into when the technology bubble burst in 2000.
The question now is whether the global pick-up will continue into 2004. One reason for optimism, economists say, is the improving jobs market in the United States, the global economy’s main growth engine.
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