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If it falls into the right category of subsidies for fossil fuels, we would have to look at our own programmes as well as others.

Both of these have serious political implications that have to be resolved and are unlikely even to be addressed with consumption subsidies.

A few years ago, in Spain making a radio documentary on fisheries, a skipper told me that he no longer received any subsidies.

Emirates is often accused by envious Europeans of growing thanks to state subsidies.

One commenter, identifying herself as Mary, said the alternative appears to be public subsidies for insurance companies.

But the extra supply comes just as the global recovery is weakening and with a dispute on the legality of US subsidies still unresolved.

It says there is "no question" of any rollback on its policy because ending fuel subsidies is essential to cut its budget deficit.

It comes from children's health insurance, he said, from education and from heating-oil subsidies for the poor.

Yet poor Nigerians fear that corrupt officials will pocket the savings. The subsidies at least benefit us a bit, they say.

For failing to live up to its commitments on corruption, protectionism and fuel subsidies, it gave the lowest grade to India.

the latter two suggest how much scope it has to absorb and defray them through fuel, electricity and food subsidies.

But because much of this industry still relies on subsidies to be competitive with fossil fuels, it is still not a true free market.

But the rules prohibit export subsidies, to prevent governments from trying to help their companies gain in world markets.

Without a watchdog of this kind the bail-outs could easily have escalated into a wave of tit-for-tat subsidies for national champions.

Take oil prices, for example: these (and government subsidies) determine how much maize is planted for ethanol.

Renewable energy is all but unlimited, but the technologies appear more costly than polluting alternatives, and subsidies are required.

For those hardscrabble families, government subsidies no doubt would be welcomed.

The American negotiators sat down in Brazil and immediately declared it impossible to get rid of the cotton subsidies right away.

State aid had taken the form of reduced-rate loans and guarantees as well as direct subsidies, he said.

Mr Obama's subsidies for green technology fattened the bottom line of a few chosen firms but did very little to spur jobs.

The U. S. is going to be cutting agricultural subsidies as part of its budget deal.

Still, the state has continued to pay big consumption subsidies for fear of public unrest if it stopped.

No father was forced to stay home, but the family lost one month of subsidies if he did not.

The G20 said the money spent on subsidies could help the poor in other, more effective, ways.

Analysts said buyers were unlikely to be tempted by the subsidies until they were easily able to recharge their cars.

The stimulus plans that the United States is pushing Europe to adopt can also distort trade, depending on how much they rely on subsidies.

Generous government subsidies are on offer: American buyers will be able to obtain up to $7, 500 towards the purchase of an electric car.

Henry: Those subsidies were set up to help recover from a number of years of low yield, not to create an unfair advantage.

It's safe to say that in the case of the subprime-mortgage mess, regulation and government subsidies deserve much of the blame.

The United States had no intention of backing down in its bitter row over farm subsidies.

At least part of this is due to a banking system failure that banks were encouraged to court by perverse incentives and implicit subsidies.

To help advance trade talks, the United States was prepared to reduce U. S. farm subsidies to $14. 5 billion, Schwab said.

Indeed, the paradox at the heart of this ostensibly clever and undoubtedly complex plan is its dependence on subsidies to private investors.

The commerce ministry said the new tariffs were a response to what it said were unfair subsidies given to poultry farmers in the US.

America, the European Union and Switzerland have all introduced new farm subsidies (or restarted programmes that had been allowed to lapse).

But that would allow Mr Ahmadinejad to blame outsiders just as he is about to incur the people's wrath by cutting petrol subsidies.

If subsidies to encourage the use of natural gas in the transportation sector were part of any new energy plan, that would be another plus.

I'm not sure why that's such a bad thing: government subsidies have kept mortgage rates too low and led to overinvestment in housing.

It would be a bad idea to continue with energy subsidies on the assumption that commodities prices will not rebound after crisis.

Among the latest moves was an increase in farm subsidies to boost production and curb grain price hikes.

"Our advice is to encourage countries with the largest subsidies to reduce them gradually, by telling them about the benefits, " he said.

"Right now US and European farmers do not need subsidies, " he said.

If ever there was a time to cut distorting agricultural subsidies and open markets for food imports, it must be now.

Its future should not be jeopardised for the sake of a few billion dollars of soyabean subsidies or a few million tonnes of beef imports.

It is true that the government subsidies make up ethanol is cheaper than it would normally be, but this support would not always be needed.

I'm told credit is still tight, especially in the U. S. Solar still depends on attractive subsidies. That still concerns me.

Ridership on this initial segment would be slight, making it impossible to operate the train without taxpayer subsidies.

However, the company points out that national and regional subsidies will defray the cost of the car there and in Europe.

Leaving it up to consumers what auto companies should benefit from government subsidies might not save GM.

Much of this weakening was driven by competition from China that had been greatly helped by government subsidies and currency manipulation.

Beijing also alleged the US companies were receiving what were in effect subsidies as the result of "Buy American" legislation.

Negotiators failed to resolve the bitter dispute between the European community and the United states over cutting subsidies to farmers.

But that may change. Mr Ahmadinejad has begun removing subsidies on bread, fuel and other items, reckoned to be worth $100 billion a year.

Food is riddled with state intervention at every turn, from subsidies to millers for cheap bread to bribes for farmers to leave land fallow.

America's generous subsidies for biofuel have increased the harvest of water-intensive crops that are now used for energy as well as food.

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Rhonda benefited from these subsidies after she was laid off from her job.

Evans says limiting access to fishing is only part of the solution. Another major factor to be addressed is the level of subsidies.

Mr. Perna also noted that extended jobless benefits and medical-insurance subsidies would be expiring in a few months.

I cannot say we have dealt with [energy subsidies] but I can say that we are facing that issue very squarely.

Indeed, the Kremlin had no reason to continue with the Soviet-era subsidies to former Soviet republics like the Ukraine or Belarus.

But the summit did nothing to improve the operation of world markets or to cut biofuels subsidies.

"We haven't received any subsidies and there are still people sleeping in tents. . . . The emergency is not over, " he said.

In some of these years, for every two yuan of increased subsidies there was less than one yuan of GDP growth.

On July 22, Schwab said the United States was willing to reduce subsidies to $15 billion to keep talks moving ahead.

For a start, fishing subsidies should be abolished in an industry characterised by overcapacity and inefficiency.

In the US the biofuel business is stimulated by a series of massive subsidies, running into hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

Mr. Wang, the villager, said the local industry would be saved only if the government provided subsidies.

In Europe, without subsidies and with government spending cuts due to come into force, demand will fall further.

As desi homecomings go , it was a mixed experience , with some long- lost relatives latching on to him as a source of subsidies .

So far, the money's been spent on unemployment, benefits, education, health and food subsidies.

Government subsidies - whether implicit or explicit - cannot be said to have added to economic well-being in aggregate.

Solar projects will either have to be abandoned, or governments will have to pay billions of additional dollars in subsidies.

He would boost the payments required of employers whose workers end up needing public subsidies to help them buy their own coverage.

He also called on the European Union to support genetically modified crops and for the United States to kill domestic subsidies for biofuel.

The local government hands out subsidies, but still, it's hard to run a business far from the main trading centers.

subsidies and other incentives to encourage workers to move out of areas of labour surplus into areas in which labour is in short supply.

Firms think twice about firing, and governments are keener to provide in-work subsidies if it means avoiding payouts to the newly jobless.

Bank analysts at Barclays Capital suggested that government guarantees and subsidies for loans to smaller businesses might be wiser.

The total amount of subsidies that can be allocated shall be limited by the annual budget for such subsidies.

Farmers in drought-stricken areas would get subsidies from the central government, he said.

Popular devices like the iPhone get preferential treatment from carriers, including heavy subsidies to draw more customers.

Subsidies may indeed become a new protectionist battleground, as similar concerns play out in other industries.

It is not subsidies to a few companies. It is not importing corn into Iowa because you've built so many of these ethanol plants.

It has done nothing to reduce the enormous subsidies in the form of cheap credit to favored state-owned firms.

Beijing pruned energy subsidies from the beginning of this month, resulting in a 36 per cent hike in fuel prices.

Another option, and ultimately the only sustainable path forward, would involve reversing the subsidies that generated such furious growth.

They suggest that if the subsidies were to end, new forest could be converted back into cropland and natural forest logged again.

Some leaders may be tempted to help their economies by competitive devaluations, export subsidies or industrial bail-outs.

Defenders of solar subsidies point out that, unlike those on biofuels, they do not actually take food from the plates of the hungry.

Like the House, the Senate aims to broaden coverage with a mixture of mandates, regulation and subsidies.

There has been a cutback in federal subsidies. Too, rates have been increasing.

Income support to farmers in developed countries is an important way for farmers to various forms of direct financial subsidies. The U.

It has been suggested that all housing subsidies should be subsumed into a single housing allowance .

Subsidies have recently been boosted for offshore windfarms, while clean coal is at least 15 years from being viable.

By one estimate, two-fifths of state paraffin subsidies are stolen, earning a "fuel mafia" $2 billion a year.

The Ukrainians already struggle to afford the cost of domestic gas subsidies; the political cost of putting up prices would be high.

Subsidies have declined within the EU; and in principle at least, money isn't paid any longer for new boats.

These subsidies acted like a bounty on exportation in favour of the English, and were detrimental to the German manufactories.

Golby said it would not be economic to do this without government subsidies and added that E. ON could build a gas plant instead.

That would anger millions of enrollees as well as the insurance companies that use the subsidies to attract hordes of new customers.

Solyndra, the poster child of the Law of Misguided Subsidies, borders on irrelevancy compared to the full impact of bad economic policy.

Multibillion dollar subsidies allow cultivation of these plants elsewhere, which requires more land and hurts farmers in poor countries.

Many countries are subsidizing the price of food, and the World Bank has called for targeted subsidies to help the poor.

Subsidies have been one of the major disputes limiting progress in the Doha development round of world trade talks.

I will withdraw some of the subsidies for the institutions and use more money to support the children and the old.

"These subsidies effectively operate as a barrier to US exports to China, " US trade representative Ron Kirk said in a statement.

But companies are reaching the point where they can no longer afford to keep workers on, subsidies or not.

The subsidies at least benefit us a bit, they say.

The strategy of new socialist countryside building is the mark of a era of "industry subsidies agriculture" and "city leads villages" .

For a growing number of businesses, government subsidies and decreasing costs are making the technology cost-effective.

Solar manufacturers had been braced for a tough year ahead as governments cut solar energy subsidies.

For instance, a mafia that embezzles vast fuel subsidies is said to be a big contributor to his campaign.

The subsidies are so lavish because renewable energy is expensive and would not be competitive without them.

Energy subsidies must be cut and power prices allowed to rise towards world market levels.

The Bank argues for real cuts in trade distorting agricultural subsidies.

Finally, the authors believe that the strategic trade policy is not to provide subsidies to the high-tech industry.

He said demand remains robust despite the lower subsidies.

On this basis, the additional hospitalization subsidies additional insurance as a type of social insurance supplement.

Vietnam has agreed to cut tariffs, quotas, and agricultural subsidies and to open up a range of services to foreign providers.

Government subsidies and the creation of a national exchange would make premiums more affordable to smaller firms and poorer individuals.

Career and technical education could be expanded at a fraction of the cost of college subsidies.

The economic crisis has led to the cancellation of many big projects, and subsidies for solar power in Germany and Spain are being reduced.

Dollops of state largesse, including tax breaks, bigger food subsidies and amnesties for convicts, have so far blunted their impact.

Despite subsidies, electric cars and hybrids (which can run off batteries or a generator powered by an engine) are shifting sluggishly.

If it does so through subsidies and discrimination against foreign companies, then it's in clear violation of WTO rules.

BP operates in one of the most regulated industries on earth with some of the most perverse rules, subsidies and incentives.

If food prices fall back, price controls become meaningless, subsidies can be withdrawn and export tariffs no longer make sense.

Some of these subsidies are direct and obvious, like those now benefiting China's clean-energy industry.

The subsidies probably won't deliver as big of a boost going forward, since many consumers have already taken advantage of them.

And the White House vetoed Republican budget bills because Republican reductions in corporate subsidies were deemed too large.

Without the subsidies, students will have to pay the full cost of such courses.

China faces no limits on subsidies that fit into the WTO "green box" category of trade policies deemed to be minimally trade-distorting.

Promising a bit more aid is easier than dismantling food subsidies that favour Western farmers but devastate African ones.

So recapitalisation must be a once-only event, with no enduring government guarantees or subsidies.

Protection, subsidies and other such follies distort agriculture more than any other sector.

The cost to European electricity users was enormous: they cover the subsidies, which are known as feed-in tariffs, in their bills.

Fuel subsidies are often seen as a form of poverty alleviation.

This will bring substantial new revenues into the system, lowering premiums for everyone and reducing the need for subsidies.

it decided to expand domestic production through scientific research, not subsidies.

Mr Babcock says some subsidies are set to expire and it's hard to see them surviving deficit-reduction efforts.

Public subsidies should instead be targeted on these least able to afford health insurance or health care.

The visitors discovered that the answer was not industrial policy or state subsidies, as they had expected, but business innovation.

If you want content, you'll have to pay for it, directly or through subsidies (NPR).

Last week, they irritated the president by introducing a raft of amendments to a bill to phase out costly subsidies.

Most European countries are far from achieving the target, and are introducing incentives and subsidies to bolster production.

But government subsidies aren't the only reason why rural residents are consuming more. Another driver has been rising rural net incomes.

One Chinese newspaper said boosting grain subsidies would probably be offset by the continuing high cost of fertiliser.

Specifically, what about hidden subsidies to industry: to what extent were defense costs still understated?

The U. S. Commerce Department said it was acting to counter improper loans, tax breaks and other subsidies to Chinese producers.

Since October, it has announced several stimulus measures and has cut interest rates, reduced duties and increased subsidies for exporters.

Further, subsidies made to local water systems often end up benefiting people other than the poor, he added.

We have learnt from the experiences of other countries that unemployment subsidies do not work.

The United States and European Union have been under pressure to reduce their agricultural subsidies and to cut tariffs.

Rwanda and Malawi have begun to export food (admittedly in Malawi's case thanks to massive and unaffordable fertiliser subsidies).

Cutting out policy foolishness like agriculture subsidies and the mortgage-interest deduction would be another positive step.

It is offering subsidies for rice farmers and its own version of a hike in the minimum wage.

The two economists would also like to see the elimination of federal subsidies to build low-income housing.

Because of WTO rules, the U. S. and Europe have been moving away from subsidies that led to vast reserves of wheat and corn.

The White House opposes the bill because of the huge subsidies, which is to say corporate welfare, it provides to agribusiness.

Worst of all, bonuses are being paid in part from subsidies: this is not a free market, but a perversion of it.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union and its generous subsidies to Cuba, Fidel allowed limited foreign investment and self-employment.

Countries may battle each other for shares of that weak demand by managing exchange rates, subsidies or tariffs.

Firms may also be tempted to use wage subsidies as a cheap way of keeping their options open at the government's expense.

The index doesn't measure domestic retail prices, which can be affected by a wide range of factors, including government subsidies.

"The risk of a period of irrational handset subsidies cannot be ruled out, " says Mr Ramachandran.

Is FAO responsible for the national incentives, the subsidies and the tariff protection, used to develop the sector?

He also named Francesco Giavazzi, an academic and critic of his policies, to advise on cutting subsidies to industry.

The biggest developing economies spend $310bn a year in such subsidies, according to the International Energy Agency.

A fair price as a theory of market economy, China's grain Subsidies policy in the interests of the logical starting point.

Of course, the war in Iraq has contributed, but so too have the enormous increases in corporate welfare and the subsidies for agriculture.

Countries are already seeking exceptions; France, for instance, says cutting farm subsidies would be illegal.

At the same time, America's critics are right to say that its offers on farm subsidies are less attractive than they sound.

Governments see subsidies as a convenient way of easing in emissions curbs which businesses would otherwise resist.

S. pledge to reduce the amount of its permitted agricultural subsidies by 20% in the first year of an eventual WTO agreement on agriculture.

All this is bankrupting the postal service, which does not receive any government subsidies.

Confronting China's export subsidies risks a similar tit-for-tat cycle at a time when the global economic recovery is weak.

It may never be easier to reduce farm subsidies, one of the most delicate issues in trade talks.

Both have made great strides in becoming more cost competitive over the years, thanks in part to large government subsidies.

But those revenue losses would be "largely offset" by the "significant" savings in handset subsidies and other promotional costs.

In the parallel universe of the WTO, members negotiate over maximum tariffs and subsidies, not the actual rates and sums.

Consider a related issue: the clearly illegal subsidies China provides to its clean-energy industry.

But the loan subsidies have come under fire recently from analysts who fear they could be flooding Vietnam with too much capital.

direct state expenditure on housing , either through investment subsidies or housing allowances , is one of the highest in the eu.

The popular reason for why those closest to the fighting, in this case, suffer less than those farther afield, is Libya's hefty subsidies.

Chinese efforts to rein in production by eliminating some subsidies have had little effect.

But the company will not build its first full-scale plant without subsidies.

Doc. in the U S A. has revised its methods that judge whether privatization of state-owned enterprises offsets subsidies.

Cuts in export subsidies have not conspicuously shrunk China's massive trade surplus or export earnings so far.

This state support prompted the US trade representative to open an investigation into Chinese wind subsidies this year.

and should ensure that subsidies do not discriminate against foreign firms.

Government subsidies to help pay for firm A's training efforts could benefit the entire production system.

Beijing municipal government will give subsidies to its operation and encourage people to do garbage sorting .

To improve farmers growing grain, in 2004, the central government decided to implement the national policy of direct subsidies to grain.

On the fiscal side, energy subsidies are straining treasuries, as Asia's oil production has fallen to one-third of its imports.

Often, as in Germany, the subsidies seem mainly to be a way to transfer funds from richer to poorer regions.

In the Special Import Measures Act, subsidies could be classified as prohibited subsidies, unappealable subsidies and specific subsidies.

A second WTO case, against illegal Chinese export subsidies, may also be filed next year.

China has worked to achieve these goals by providing a myriad of subsidies to its solar technology producers.

In the meantime, some European countries and parts of America have instituted subsidies to support the adoption of solar power.

It works by doling out government subsidies (up to $10, 000 a mortgage ) to both lenders and borrowers to 'modify' or reduce a mortgage .

Sectoral subsidies, particularly to carmakers, have often come with pressure to ensure that any job cuts take place abroad, not at home.

The package also includes temporary subsidies to help pay for laid-off workers' health insurance.

Democrats have always been critical of federal interest-rate subsidies to private lenders, which is how student loans are organised.

A red flag should go up if Mr Obama proposes to regard new subsidies for healthcare as part of his stimulus.

For a Democrat President in hard economic times, dismantling those subsidies is not an option.

At a more mundane level, each country's array of export subsidies and duties and import barriers is a separate fiscal policy.

The Doha round's negotiations on agricultural subsidies have also reached general agreement on cuts deeper than those of the Uruguay round.

Poor people like him are entitled to subsidies for food, housing and health care, but he has no access to them.

Furthermore, debate continues over the relationship between subsidies and demand growth in emerging markets.

Once industrial subsidies like this begin to flow, it is difficult to stop them.

Its goal is narrower: to eliminate one of the subsidies that Washington now bestows on Wall Street.

Generous subsidies for established parties rig the system against outsiders and newcomers.

Small airports are expected to receive government subsidies after being reclassified as public infrastructure under a new regulation.

The answer is to ditch such subsidies and aim help at the poorest, but no Arab ruler is likely to propose such reforms right now.

Any legislation is likely to include subsidies to help the poorest pay for cover.

That sounds conciliatory, but the Brazilians are still emphasising that negotiations would have to focus on cotton subsidies.

The drop was a result of a cap in subsidies which Madrid applied because of a growing liability from its 25-year guaranteed incentives.

Where food subsidies are unavoidable, they should be temporary and targeted on the poor.

Energy poverty is a real problem; fuel subsidies are not the solution.

Dairy farmers will also receive assistance and subsidies to help the industry recover .

Many have described the Ma subsidies as emblematic of an economic system unfairly tilted in favor of the advantaged.

Congress also reduced the proportion of welfare recipients who must find work if a state is not to lose subsidies.

In a vicious temporary slump, driven by a credit crunch and the collapse of global spending, such subsidies make short-term sense.

He estimates that costs have to be cut in half for fuel cells to be economical without subsidies.

To pay for a national debt that has tripled in a decade, he has cut services and subsidies and raised taxes.

Acreage controls and input subsidies work at cross purposes, each increases the cost of the other .

The latest Geneva talks got nowhere in large part because America refused to make bigger cuts in its farm subsidies (see article).

Yet, despite decades of subsidies, solar and wind still make up a tiny percentage of energy virtually everywhere in the world.

The global solar industry is facing a drop in demand later this year when the German government cuts its subsidies for solar power.

Those incentives were subsidies for rural buyers and a two-year reduction in the sales tax on new family vehicles.

Existing subsidies for preventing foreclosure should be redirected towards reducing principal.

Since the issue of fisheries subsidies in the WTO forum, the controversy surrounding its launch has been going on for nearly a decade.

That sounds impressive, but it has been achieved largely by subsidies from the governments of Germany, Japan and California.

India already spends $12 billion a year on food subsidies alone.

Liberalising financial sectors and scrapping wasteful fuel subsidies would be good ways to begin.

Postal systems are usually government-run and paid for by a combination of user charges and government subsidies.

The subsidies that China showers on its corporate sector have been crucial to building an industrial economy.

The common goal is to open markets and cut subsidies, stretching but not overreaching domestic political support.

They also set new rules for insurance companies and provide subsidies to some Americans to help cover the cost of coverage.

With the exception of farmers undercut by Chinese imports, few think trade protection or outright subsidies are the answer.

These subsidies are a major expense for western operators but result in their customers often getting free or very cheap handsets.

Subsidies to encourage foreign buyers to keep open British factories and offices impose a cost on the rest of the economy.

Input subsidies, as well as inefficiencies in public distribution agencies , tend to restrict availability.

increase fiscal expenditure and financial subsidies to support agricultural , social and educational development.

China City, the county government subsidies and incentives should be developed, be imposed on China to give subsidies and incentives.

Democrats aimed to end subsidies to Big Oil as a revenue-booster to protect social programs, but found little support from Republicans.

In the end, the subsidies stopped within a year.

Although export subsidies are a potent symbol of the rich world's iniquitous farm policies, they have little impact on global commerce.

As part of that shift, Beijing has reduced subsidies.