Yet Italy slips back into last place for secondary schooling, just below Spain, and is also in last place for university funding, well below Spain. In any case, the amount of public money set aside overall for education in Italy is lower than that in the other three countries, given similar, mainly public education systems.
Other countries have an increasing interest in the success of the efforts of the Chinese authorities to achieve balanced growth, financial stability and efficient allocation of the capital resources which are flowing into China from abroad. The Japanese economy remains in a very difficult position.