IT-using sector is composed of 9 industries in which the ratio of software investment to GDP is relatively high: information and communications; transport and postal services; wholesale and retail trade; accommodation and food service activities; professional, scientific and technical activities; electricity, gas and water supply and waste management service; chemicals; textile products; other manufacturing. 2.
For banks, too, funding has become considerably cheaper.” In short, financial conditions have improved. “Even though some critics said that quantitative easing would be less effective here than in the United States, because much of the financing is provided by banks.