William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."
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India should scrap paper money altogether
Four reasons Narendra Modi should speed up a digital rupee
Traders transact at a wholesale vegetable market in Bangalore in December 2016: an e-rupee would do exactly what Modi hoped to achieve in 2016. © AP
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