Note 3-52

(52) With regard to the potential national burden ratio, the "Basic Policies for Economic and Fiscal Policy Management and Structural Reform 2003," which was decided by the cabinet on June 27, 2003, says that the efforts will be made "to realize a sustainable economic growth led by private demand and to curb the total expenditures of the government with the national and local governments acting in concert in order to restrain the rise in the size of government, for instance, at about 50% as measured by the potential national burden ratio."