The package, to be approved by Abe's cabinet on Tuesday, includes 7.5 trillion yen in spending by the national and regional governments and 6 trillion yen from the Fiscal Investment and Loan Programme, which is not included in the government's general budget, the draft shows.
The headline figure for the package, which includes public-private partnerships and other amounts that are not direct government outlays, comes to 28.1 trillion yen. (Reporting by Takaya Yamaguchi; Writing by William Mallard; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)Japan stimulus package includes $130 billion yen in 'fiscal measures': draft
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