It also reflects rising confidence that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's stimulus policies, dubbed "Abenomics, " will shake the economy out of its stupor, boosting earnings of companies geared to domestic demand.

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Instead, he promised to shake up the economy.

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Mr Prodi pushed ahead with privatisation (even though he created some private monopolies along the way), liberalised shopping hours and licences, tried to shake the fat out of the economy, made bureaucrats jump.

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Pepsi Bottling Group was fairly flat in the third quarter despite its efforts to shake things up in the down economy.

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Perhaps because they do not have a large foreign debt to service, the Czechs appear complacent about the need to shake up their economy further.

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Some economists believe Bernanke is waiting to see how things shake out in the U.S. economy before deciding whether to raise rates further, if at all.

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The economy is struggling to shake off a deep recession.

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And yet after 1979 Margaret Thatcher showed that a determined government could shake up a sclerotic economy (and defeat the miners).

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This boost could outweigh the much-touted negative effect of a shake-out of labour as companies restructure and, in any case, that shake-out might not happen to any great extent if the economy as a whole is recovering, taking incomes and profits up with it.

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