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Indeed, Belgium might be seen as a microcosm of the EU, with a wealthy, Germanic north fed up with subsidising a poorer, Latin south.

You can have as many arms export jobs as you are prepared to waste public money subsidising.

Several governors are trying to stem this decline by subsidising bare-bones health insurance for these people.

"Essentially, we're subsidising the construction of solar-powered roofs. . . So we end up paying double, " he said.

Over the next five years, governments and central banks will suck investors into subsidising economic growth through volatility.

But the state has no business subsidising corporate entertainment.

That is because, in subsidising unsustainable practices, governments are promoting a licensed form of theft by one generation from the next.

To get investment banking culture under control, a good start would be for everyone to stop subsidising it.

Two years ago, during the depths of the global financial crisis, he endorsed subsidising tortillas, Mexico's food staple.

Not to be outdone, India and Vietnam are subsidising the expansion of their own shipbuilding operations.

For one thing, some of the money is being spent subsidising Chinese exports.

Subsidising tuition fees for relatively prosperous students is not the solution.

A huge proportion of the Iranian budget is spent on subsidising a wide range of goods for Iranian consumers from food to refined petroleum.

Without positive consumer credit data sharing, as at present, consumers with good credit have been subsidising those with doubtful credit.

Yet in the face of soaring commodity prices , the costs associated with subsidising basic staples have become too prohibitive .

On the loopy side there is Japan, where local governments are subsidising speed dating to help time-poor office workers find spouses.

Of course the idea of the utility subsidising the borrowing costs of the investment bank annoys politicians and regulators.

Subsidising the price of rice would only promote corruption and smuggling, says Yuri Sobolev, the IMF's Liberia country representative.

politicians who set out to pick winners often end up subsidising losers instead.

Chinese workers are subsidising their government in the amount of the interest on China's holdings of US assets.

and over $40 billion stolen in Uttar Pradesh alone from schemes subsidising food and fuel for the poor.

They should set aside their exchange-rate policies in favour of industrial policy, subsidising promising new industries directly.

First, loss-socialisation lowers the funding costs of mega-banks, thereby selectively subsidising their balance sheets.

Chinese depositors and taxpayers are subsidising the very industries that are slowly poisoning them.

Tanzania and Mali tried to achieve the same end by subsidising the grain and fertiliser merchants directly.

In concrete terms, it means persuading China to stop subsidising its industries.

Second, governments are subsidising this manipulation, by giving debt tax-favoured treatment over equity.

Korea is leading the way by heavily subsidising the early installation of fuel cells at office buildings and other large electricity users.

A large part of CDM revenues are subsidising carbon intensive industries or projects building fossil fuel power stations.

It is both better politics and better economics to deal with the problem by facilitating failure than by subsidising it.

Subsidising shorter working weeks, for instance, props up demand today, but impedes long-term reordering.

Since more banks have access to the liquidity auction, thecentral banks are implicitly subsidising weaker banks relative to stronger ones.

Amazon has been subsidising shipping to help boost its sales.

Until now, Asian countries have insulated consumers by heavily subsidising energy costs.

Overthe next five years, governments and central banks will suck investors into subsidising economic growth through volatility.

But combining the two by subsidising renewable energy is, like many easy answers, the wrong solution.

The Chinese currency policy is, in effect, a development policy that works by subsidising foreign consumers who buy Chinese goods.

In effect, governments are subsidising the use of raw materials by failing to charge big energy users for the emissions they cause.

The authorities finally cottoned on when she broadened her reach, subsidising a small taxi firm in addition to her private clients.

But if oil prices keep going up, it is simply not in any country's best interest to keep subsidising these prices indefinitely.

Cuba's communist government says it's liberalising the sale of sugar after decades of subsidising its price.

But mostly such policies end up subsidising well-connected industries and products.

Bizarrely, by financing America's deficit, poor countries are subsidising the world's richest consumers.

US labour groups have long accused Beijing of unfairly subsidising its exporters.

in effect UK consumers are subsidising Danish and German wind energy companies.

Cuba's communist government says it is liberalising the sale of sugar, after decades of subsidising its price.

In addition, a case can be made for subsidising the wages of the working unskilled.

And shouldn't it be a basic requirement of charity law that we know who, as taxpayers, we are subsidising?

This is one of the easiest problems I have ever come across. You should go on subsidising the canteen.

In this case, China pre-emptively abolished a programme subsidising its wind power industry.

The government was already heavily subsidising businesses that kept workers in employment.

Northern Europe in effect has been subsidising southern European consumption from the onset of the euro on January 1 1999.

Subsidising fossil fuels has many flaws.

It is subsidising the salaries of workers on mandatory leave.

This extraordinary resilience reflects the widespread political lust in America for subsidising housing.

That is logical: there is no point in calling for cleaner energy while subsidising the dirty kind.

Schools in Tokyo began subsidising lunches in 1914.

Estonia is also subsidising IVF and hopes to increase the number of IVF babies to about 1 in 30.

It is now subsidising traders to buy land in Africa.

that is roughly half the amount the EU devotes to subsidising rice production.

I presume the job creation story has something to do with fiscal stimulus aimed at subsidising work-sharing.

Last year Iran spent $13 billion-plus on subsidising petrol.

Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, suggested subsidising the worst affected and curbing taxes on petrol;

Subsidising Effects of Puerarin on an Increase of Red Blood Cell and Hemoglobin in Mice Caused by Swimming Training