The corresponding figures for the US are 12.9 and 6.7 per cent; for Japan, 10.2 and 8.1 per cent. In 2012 public debt in the eurozone is forecast to reach 88 per cent of GDP, compared with 103 per cent in the United States and 239 per cent in Japan.
At the end of the first year of the program’s operation, 75 percent of companies that were active in it had completed the testing they were asked to perform, and 90 percent of them had significantly expanded the market in which their product or service was offered by the end of the program.