portugal's economy is on the mend and more people are finding work like carla costa a food engineer by training. for many years she considered leaving the country but didn't because she didn't want to uproot her daughters they might use only experience i've thought long and hard about this and it cost some tears you only know if it was the right decision afterwards because the economic situation can change any time my own know it but so far i don't regret saying that it was just after a lot of searching carla now has a good job as a production engineer in a dried fruit factory and her boss has big plans he wants to exploit the region signature dried apples and pears across all of europe. so far business is good with portuguese labor costs being low. but small and medium sized companies want the government to do more like cut red tape to foster entrepreneurs. ship. that was she and the government now is to try to be doing more to help the industry and an agricultural sector that we will soon have regularly people are realizing that will contest rely on tourism and real estate. you. know