date:Dec 26, 2012
owth in 2014. Exports have grown, but still remain below the EU average.
Small and medium-sized businesses account for almost three-quarters of jobs and 55 percent of company revenues, but their overall quality, and lifespan, leaves a lot to be desired.
The latest Eurostat data show Portugal had the third highest birth rate of company startups in Western Europe after France and Holland in 2009, before the sovereign debt crisis, more than a third higher than neighbouring Spain or Ireland. But t