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India extends large, soft loans to curry favour with a friendly regime in Bangladesh and is paying for post-war reconstruction in Sri Lanka.

None of the above, though, accounts wholly for the behaviour of US bankers in extending soft loans to private equity.

Totting up the total value of aid, including soft loans and guaranteed credit, is tricky.

And China can point to Africa to show that financial assistance, in the form of soft loans, can bring political and economic benefits.

Beijing has lavished aid money on Africa, often in the form of soft loans for infrastructure development.

it is hard to make them put up with the advisers who come with "soft" loans, unless the other terms are very attractive.

Shipyards want help in gaining access to credit lines and soft loans, as well as rules to promote greener ships.

Unlike the space project, the BGI is a private venture, although a lot of its money has come from Chinese taxpayers in soft loans.

Then India relied on soft loans and deposits from its diaspora to fill the hole.

The World Bank and Asian Development Bank have so far promised $3 billion in soft loans.

China recently provided soft loans totalling $25bn to Russia in exchange for a 20-year energy supply contract.

The incentives offered by the government include tax breaks and soft loans from China's large state-owned development banks.

In 1998 a group of 52 families clubbed together and, with the help of government land-reform grants and soft loans, managed to buy the farm.

"We have $280m in soft loans from China, " the interior minister said.

But the World Bank and Asian Development Bank have promised $3 billion in soft loans.

The figures show that China is not yet a big provider of soft loans to the continent.

The development arm of the World Bank makes "soft" loans of around $10 billion annually, for example.

Soft loans from the Fed were designed to tempt investors into buying securities;