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PLN, the state power company, has been trying to encourage private-sector investment, but subsidised electricity acts as a disincentive.

The president's brother, Adan, helps to co-ordinate the company's subsidised oil sales around the Caribbean as ambassador to Cuba.

According to IPEA, a government-linked research outfit, the BNDES's subsidised interest rates cost taxpayers up to 21 billion reais a year.

Not a free ride, but at least a subsidised one. NUTRITIOUS or not, when you are hungry the promise of a meal is welcome.

Subsidised borrowing may have accounted for much of the acceleration in the ratio of euro-south consumption relative to that of Germany.

A former finance minister said he could administer the subsidised bread programme only if he had one security guard for each sack of flour.

But it does matter that it has an excellent, state-subsidised system of creches , to which mothers are happy to entrust their offspring.

Under the scheme, these insolvency practitioners' remuneration would be subsidised by the government funds up to a prescribed limit.

Provides legal information for the general public, and informs the general public about where to seek free or subsidised legal assistance.

Then, when oil prices fell, the president was able to cut prices of subsidised fuel, used by 90% of the population, three times.

Unlike the curated and subsidised International Festival, the Fringe is open to anyone with a little money and plenty of passion.

In their pretty fishing villages and state-subsidised paddy-fields, most are too removed from the war to feel much urgency to end it.

Most of the time it is not. But such "accountability journalism" has always been subsidised by other activities.

And if Chinese firms throw subsidised capital around the world, that's fine. America and Europe could use the money.

The state dramatically underestimated the quantity of energy that would be sold at subsidised prices.

Jiuxian's hospital is subsidised by the county government, but only enough to cover 85% of its staff's wages, which are relatively generous.

Russia says it is simply asking Ukraine to pay the market price for its gas, not the subsidised rate it paid as a former Soviet satellite.

In Tehran petrol is heavily subsidised, so taxis are cheap, and the new metro is still far from complete.

Venezuela is now providing subsidised fuel to Londoners, discounted crude oil to Cuba and buying distressed public debt from Argentina.

The generals subsidised sales of television sets to build a sense of nationhood in a large and then largely illiterate country.

"The government is in effect asking private banks to lend it money at a subsidised rate, " moans one banker. "But we have no other option. "

Some of the residents are subsidised by the government, which seems happy to let private initiative flourish.

The cost of capital to the banking sector is subsidised, causing the sector to be too large.

a particular concern in a city where 85% of schoolchildren are poor enough to receive subsidised meals.

At least the academics are convinced that the profits are genuine, even if they are subsidised.

Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood's president, wants to have 17m clients one day, the number of women who need subsidised birth control.

Demand is already responding to the new prices except in those parts of the world where retail fuel prices are controlled or subsidised.

Growth is driven as much by subsidised expansion of capacity as by the profitable matching of supply to final demand.

Such approaches are used less than elsewhere because government-funded schemes allow companies to introduce subsidised short-time working.

The poor still queue for government-subsidised bread and must scrimp and save to buy a pair of shoes.

But efforts are being made to engage the private sector in delivering only highly subsidised, high-quality malaria medicines.

"We cannot raise the prices of subsidised food so every increase [in international prices] is absorbed by the state, " Mr Mostapha said.

In a world of subsidised metro systems, it is a rare example of a railway that makes a profit without government financial assistance.

In India, which has lots of sun and lots of back-up generators burning subsidised diesel, that could be a game changer in itself.

Subsidised loans form a central plank of the stimulus package: Hanoi has paid 4 percentage points of new loans to businesses.

Central to the initiative is Beijing's plan to build 36m state-subsidised housing units within the next five years.

Free or subsidised services are presented including a brief description of the services offered along with all contact details.

While China's drivers fill their tanks on subsidised gas, investors can only watch and weep.

Profits can be made when energy is rationed or subsidised, but only within an economy operating at lower, or even negative, growth rates.

A shocking two-thirds of the subsidised grain that the government allocates to the poor is either stolen or adulterated.

So roof water catchment schemes have usually been subsidised by non-governmental organisations, foreign donors, or national governments.

The plan's aim, say officials, is narrow: to stop Wall Street from gambling in capital markets with subsidised deposits.

"All the programmes over the years have pulled it off by having subsidised systems, " says Thomas.

In the past, all technologies were subsidised equally, so most investment went into onshore wind, the cheapest source of renewable energy.

After Beijing initiated the dispute last September, Washington began legal action against subsidised Chinese branded goods.

Since the end of apartheid in 1994, African National Congress-led governments have built about 2m subsidised houses nationwide.

Often our public services are operated by the private sector on a franchised, regulated or subsidised basis.

Those studying less lucrative subjects would have to pay more, or be subsidised more.

Sexually active adults and teenagers must rely on condoms that are provided for free or sold at a subsidised low price.

Privatise Medicare, the much-loved, and highly-subsidised government health-insurance scheme for the elderly?

But the government is now fostering non-state defence enterprise, even promising subsidised loans for privately owned munitions companies.

But the state always guaranteed them jobs, workplace perks, free health care and education, and heavily subsidised housing and transport.

Subsidised government-insurance schemes offer them some reassurance already, but derivatives can fill gaps or boost coverage.

Under his plan, many individuals and small businesses will buy subsidised health insurance through state-sponsored exchanges.

Recipients can expect heavily-subsidised rents, tax holidays, interest-free loans, and bonuses on sales to state-backed distributors.

Both shows are being subsidised by China's ministry of culture, without whose support they would have been impossible to stage.

US ethanol, subsidised as a homegrown alternative to foreign oil, is being exported in record volumes.

Indian consumers pay heavily subsidised prices for at petrol stations and for cooking fuels.

The farm no longer makes money, but cheap government loans and heavily subsidised diesel help to keep him going.

The provision of subsidised housing to the elderly is an important government service.

All manner of businesses in the state, from FedEx to wineries in Napa Valley, are rushing to install subsidised solar panels (see article).

From elements in mobile phones to leather in trainers, all are habitually "subsidised" by the environment.

And should recipients be forced to open up subsidised networks to rivals?

But when subsidised commodities have been cut, instability has often followed.

And if private investors do take the subsidised risk, the assets may yet cause large losses for Congress to pay.

Without a "city" registration, they do not have access to some state-subsidised services, like health and education.

The Singaporean government subsidised businesses that retained staff.

Unfortunately, about half of India's subsidised kerosene never makes it to household stoves, he says.

That might embolden American efforts to shelter its extravagantly subsidised sugar industry.

And a lot of credit is subsidised, which pushes up costs for the rest.

Along with subsidised food and fuel, governments provide cheap or even free water to ensure the consent of the governed.

And if Chinese firms throw subsidised capital around the world, that's fine.

He wants HUD to be more than the department of subsidised housing, and hopes to focus too on the urban development side.

China this month levied taxes on US speciality steel products it said were being subsidised through "Buy American" laws.

An unregulated, but subsidised, casino will not allocate resources well.

Inflammation in group B subsidised slower, without drug-induced high intraocular pressure.

Its investment bank was free to bet with subsidised funds, since transfers from the private bank were deeply underpriced.

Many new landowners find that reselling their subsidised diesel on the black market is far more lucrative than farming.

Inflammation in group C subsidised fast with short duration, but no high intraocular pressure occurred.

More often they are "free" or subsidised, and their use needs to be policed or rationed.

The government could keep fares down if it subsidised construction cost.

This week, the government announced that it would sell rice at highly subsidised prices to millions of garment workers.

Only some of their students are eligible for state-subsidised loans.

But as corrupt elites exploit subsidised fuel for their own gain, these handouts are unlikely to be cut anytime soon.

The dwelling size of open-market housing is also relatively large compared with dwellings in the subsidised sectors.

It commands more than 40 per cent of PC shipments under a government programme for subsidised computers for rural users.

If firms that benefit from state largesse (eg, subsidised credit) are included, that figure rises to half.

One-third of home owners purchased their homes at subsidised rates from their work units during the initial housing reform programme.

Moreover, libraries must not be forced to buy, at expensive prices, research results subsidised by public funds.

Subsidised religion has seldom made sense for either state or church: witness Europe's empty news .

Family support; subsidised healthcare and housing?

Among other things, the South Korean government has subsidised visits to Mount Kumgang.

Students and parents are already becoming more demanding now that they paytuition fees, albeit subsidised ones.

Next, they say, its loans are subsidised and its accounts murky.

Under this model, employers subsidised care, usually by providing space.

In either case household income is reduced, and exporters and users of capital are subsidised.

The federal stimulus subsidised part of the premium.

The state has nudged Mr Jensen and others forward by providing them with the advice of subsidised consultants.

Public-service sites such as local portals might be toll-free and subsidised by governments.

It is undeniable that massively subsidised demand has been largely responsible for recent sharp drops in the price of panels.

But water is everywhere hugely subsidised, and protectionism often stops an efficient allocation of resources.

Rural mail, telephones and utilities are cross-subsidised by city-dwellers.

A government programme will pour R$60bn into Brazil's low-end housing market through often heavily subsidised loans.

From next month they will be entitled to subsidised cars as well.

The Chinese government has heavily subsidised the rollout of high-speed access, so internet penetration now approaches rich-country levels.

Mr Ma adds that most Chinese exports to India are from private companies and are not subsidised.

For good public schools and subsidised cycle paths, try Portland, Oregon.

MANY Chinese cities are short of water, yet encourage wastage by selling it at heavily subsidised prices.

Lack of access to such benefits, particularly to urban schools, subsidised housing and health care, is a big problem for migrants.

It will also gradually transfer municipal "subsidised" schools to the education ministry, but not make them free.

The new railways were supported by massive land grants and subsidised credit.

Ukraine's logic is clearer. The budget deficit is crippling. A big drain on the public purse is subsidised domestic gas prices.

At that point, the stock market cannot be subsidised any more.

They built roads through the forest, and subsidised companies and people to colonise it.

Fees in public hospitals and clinics are heavily subsidised .

Britain's subsidised plant has suffered repeated delays.

Brazil also subsidised inputs, launching a programme that provided credit for 14, 000 tractors in its first year.

Wind-generated power is also subsidised, with preferential pricing from the grid.

He allowed the French to take his oil and wood; they subsidised and protected him.

Even at the subsidised interest rates we assume, Greece would pay 8-9% of its GDP in interest by 2015, mostly to foreigners.

The party also plans a big increase in the construction of government-subsidised housing.

Kita Buratino's carers mourn the loss of subsidised bread, field trips to the Baltic and holidays to celebrate women and teachers.

The subsidised group saw deaths fall by half versus the control group.

Half of this is spent on social programmes, from zinc roofs and livestock to subsidised bus travel.

In the EU itself, vineyard area decreased by a further 2. 5% in 2009 as the new subsidised uprooting program kicked in.

Launching his subsidised-jobs scheme last month, Mr Sarkozy declared: "We can't be ideological in the face of human misery. "

In 2007, there were riots when the government decided to begin rationing subsidised petrol.

They are entitled to free English lessons, subsidised meals and free parking.

As public finances deteriorated, the government cut distributions of subsidised food.

Federal loans are subsidised, and they offer better forgiveness and repayment provisions.

An advertising-subsidised Kindle is already sold in the USA.

Similarly, fees and charges for subsidised services are also adjusted annually so as to maintain the real value of the level of subsidy.

Tax credits subsidised low-paid families more generously than ever before.

The Loan Scheme was abolished in April 1999 following a review of subsidised housing loan schemes.

Higher education has been heavily subsidised in Britain since 1945; universities are widely regarded as social melting pots.

which are neither subsidised nor guaranteed by the state and charge market rates that can top 17%.

Clubs must comply with the new financial restrictions by August 20th, and are asking the government for subsidised loans to tide them over.

HKCEE candidates applied for subsidised Secondary 6 places according to an established Secondary 6 admission procedure.

The US wanted access to export markets such as India's for its most heavily subsidised commodities including cotton, corn, sugar and rice.

unless he keeps getting subsidised electricity from the government, he will, he says, have to shut the whole place down.

Sarju and other paupers have been issued with "above the poverty line" , or APL, ration cards, entitling them to some subsidised kerosene.

Many people find irregular ways to top up wages that average around $15 a month (not counting subsidised food and services).

Besides, Singaporeans had savings they could draw on, family they could rely on and subsidised housing they could live in.

The roads are excellent, petrol is subsidised and people are friendly and able to converse in English.

Gone, too, will be most state-subsidised child care, which would affect more than 200, 000 children.

Lentekriebels is a government-subsidised project for children aged four to 12.

In September 2001, the Government announced a moratorium on the sales of all subsidised home ownership flats until the end of June 2002.

Where second earners are not penalised by taxes or where child care is cheap (or subsidised), they can have both.

India gives subsidised food to over 400m poor people.

You, on the other hand, have had your living costs subsidised and your risks in the property market hedged.

Phones are highly subsidised in Japan and the resale value is essentially nil, so it is not unusual to see lost units lying in the gutter.

The first group frets that cheap, government-subsidised insurance not only distorts investment decisions but also risks politicising them.

Several issues remain: for example, Central America wants to limit imports of Europe's (subsidised) powdered milk and cheese.

In 1997, the government subsidised Secondary 4 places for about 81 per cent of the 15-year-olds in a continuing programme.

The Green Revolution of the 1960s, for example, provided new seeds and subsidised fertilisers.

Venezuela, for example, subsidised petrol and some food items, while India also subsidised fuel.

An IMF staff study has estimated that emerging and developing countries subsidised fuel by about $250 billion in 2010.

Its C1 model, for example, is expected to sell at a subsidised price of $40-$50.

Were it not for subsidised public housing, where 40 per cent of Hong Kong residents live, conditions would be much worse.

The construction of 13m square metres of subsidised housing, which began last year, comprised 50 per cent of housing starts in 2010.

In Japan and South Korea, two other countries with fast networks, the government has subsidised the laying of new fibre.

america may also consider levying countervailing duties against chinese goods that the commerce department considers artificially subsidised

Beijing subsidised purchases of electronic goods and revved up its already mammoth building programme;

For years it subsidised his regime with cheap gas and duty-free crude oil, which Belarus refined and re-exported;

those not entitled to subsidised public medical services

Among other things, they want the government, rather than local councils and parents, to finance the "subsidised" schools;

Increasing Supply of Subsidised Housing in Short to Medium Term

implements subsidised home ownership schemes and loan schemes to enable those in the relevant income groups to buy their own homes;

The murky world of subsidised opera