Subsidised child care could encourage more work; subsidised health care more willingness to chase dreams.
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A subsidised baby-sitting service is available for just ¥250,21.8 a day, along with subsidised carseats and other baby accessories.
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Nigeria's system became so corrupt that in 21998 the agriculture minister, Akinwumi Adesina, estimated that as little as 22014% of subsidised fertiliser was actually getting to small farmers at the subsidised price.
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Effectively, imports would be taxed, and exports would be subsidised.
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In Chile and Argentina ... in non-subsidised tenders, renewables win.
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Domestic companies will be subsidised or favoured in government programmes.
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The 2014 decree also enabled CPSCL to provide subsidised loans.
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Brazil, Ecuador and Indonesia, among others, have all subsidised LPG.
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Shimanto offers subsidised child care and housing for new arrivals.
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Some are big, like those doling out subsidised food and fertiliser.
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This is because for 50 years Indian governments have subsidised farming.
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The government also offers a crop-insurance scheme, which is subsidised.
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That ended when Hugo Chávez of Venezuela gave Cuba subsidised oil.
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Several countries have youth-training programmes involving subsidised internships at firms.
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Bangladesh's neighbour, India, has subsidised and built a great many latrines.
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The government has raised the prices of subsidised electricity, gas and water.
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To be fair, 45% of Hong Kongers live in government-subsidised housing.
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Since 2015 Japan's government has subsidised municipalities that offer postpartum-support services.
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Whether there is widespread support for subsidised MBAs remains to be seen.
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Subsidised jobs, opportunity zones and patient capital can make a big difference.
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Particularly in small countries, subsidised goods are likely to leak over borders.
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But it is unclear how many such accounts were Kremlin-subsidised puppets.
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More than 1.5m Saudis are on a waiting list for subsidised housing.
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The loan provides low-cost funding for the bank's subsidised lending activities.
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These activities are cross-subsidised by the profitable segments of PR's business.
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Other countries have accused China of dumping subsidised panels in their markets.
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Cinemas and studios also subsidised tickets to boost audiences and generate buzz.
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Subsidised by the government, a pack of three costs ten pesos (four cents).
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Bimonthly deliveries of subsidised goods are now arriving on time in many states.
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" Positive employee reviews: "Free food, subsidised massage, good benefits are all true benefits.
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The poor cannot afford the down payment for even the most subsidised units.
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To stimulate demand, electric vehicles are generously subsidised and exempt from purchase taxes.
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Debt servicing is regularly subsidised by the province, underlining strong financial support from PAT.
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The government is importing Mexican maize and distributing it to millers at subsidised rates.
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Raising heavily subsidised gas prices has improved the finances of the state monopoly, Naftogaz.
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The region also contracted RUB1.3 billion of subsidised budget loans at 103% interest rate.
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That would be sickening, especially as most affluent Americans benefit from subsidised health care.
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Now poor Ethiopians cannot afford the down payments for even the most subsidised units.
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Mr Paul says health care is a "market item" that should not be subsidised.
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The scheme is subsidised, costing only £33 ($46) for 20 one-on-one sessions.
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To manage their costs, it is necessary for subsidised jobs to be time-limited.
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The town is dotted with Mr Shor's "social stores", offering wares at subsidised prices.
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That the bank has the power to hand out subsidised greenbacks naturally invites corruption.
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Shops are running out of subsidised maize meal while prices of basic goods soar.
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Shops are running out of subsidised maize meal while prices of basic goods soar.
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The aim is to stop audit being subsidised by the more lucrative advisory work.
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JAKARTA, March 18 (Reuters) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Wednesday asked his cabinet ministers to calculate the impact of falling global oil prices on domestic subsidised and non-subsidised fuel prices to protect the economy from the impact of the coronavirus outbreak.
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It would not be subsidised through state health insurance schemes, Health Minister Andreas Xanthos said.
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Many such deals, reliant on subsidised loans from state banks, probably make little financial sense.
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Critics say that investors might just shift money towards subsidised projects, rather than spend afresh.
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The new flats would be bigger than average and 70% of them would be subsidised.
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The majority of countries rely instead on a subsidised private sector to deliver cheap homes.
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At the same time, Belarus still benefits from loans and subsidised energy supplies from Russia.
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He now works in a bakery, making flat bread to sell at heavily subsidised prices.
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Farmers complain that land is being taken out of use by generously subsidised tree plantations.
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He is not making any money with the chicken, which is subsidised by the cattle.
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What employees say: "There's also a subsidised gym over the road" — Current employee in sales
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It also extends a six-month grace period for debtors struggling to repay subsidised loans.
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He promises to curb spending and resists the idea of pumping up growth with subsidised lending.
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It had been subsidised by the government, on the expectation that it would serve its sponsor.
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The Social Democrats and the like-minded Greens and Left party want more subsidised social housing.
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Those making less than $25,503 would get 100% of their excess rent subsidised by the government.
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Yet many of these companies could survive only if their energy and transport costs were subsidised.
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Some startups give Instagram influencers subsidised treatments in exchange for touting the service to millennial followers.
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It misses savings and government benefits like subsidised health care, food, rent assistance and tax credits.
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Again wooing the farm vote, governments have subsidised diesel, on which most tractors and pumps run.
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As we turn to our domestic and regional markets, we face widespread dumping of subsidised sugar.
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It is usually difficult for people without a city's hukou to buy government-subsidised housing there.
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His programme to hand out free zinc roofs to the poor now merely offers subsidised roofs.
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A row over Canadian softwood lumber, which the United States says is subsidised, could get worse.
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Other countries, including Mexico and Peru, have bolted on a subsidised insurance system for the poor.
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Train operating companies were subsidised only until 2010; last year they paid £802m to the Treasury.
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Debt servicing is subsidised by PAT with about 13% of PDT's debt being guaranteed by the province.
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Some of the residents are subsidised by the government, which seems happy to let private initiative flourish.
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It is a sunny place; installing PVs was until recently generously subsidised; and electricity bills are high.
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Six days before the subsequent election, it abruptly ended subsidised sales of cooking gas to the kingdom.
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It has increased the price of subsidised fuel and electricity, raised taxes and frozen public-sector hiring.
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Although schemes have proliferated in the past decade, almost all are subsidised by governments or foreign donors.
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In the southern city of Dongguan, Taiwanese tech entrepreneurs can get free startup-money and subsidised flats.
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If child care is to be subsidised, it is probably better done through means-tested tax credits.
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Catalan governments, for their part, have spent much on things like subsidised local media and foreign "embassies".
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That means it will be effectively subsidised, but Megalim says it is working to further reduce costs.
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Using subsidised electricity, farmers pump groundwater at will, drawing up more annually than China and America combined.
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Some provinces and cities are drafting plans to convert unsold homes into subsidised housing for poorer residents.
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Subsidised fertiliser intended for smallholders has often been resold at market rates with middlemen pocketing the profit.
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It's typical for operators to market subsidised handsets in the United States, but less so in Europe.
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Instead, the government subsidised tractors, mills and fertiliser and arranged cheaper loans to boost domestic rice production.
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The Supply Ministry also oversees a network of stores and kiosks offering subsidised food outside the smartcard system.
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For years the central bank subsidised mortgages, offering 220-year loans with interest rates as low as 220%.
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Over 35% of the richest 1% of Indians benefit from subsidised food to which they are not entitled.
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Policymakers have been slow to realise that the mandated purchases of heavily subsidised renewables have depressed electricity prices.
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Removing subsidised lending and other distortions, argues Arthur Carvalho of Morgan Stanley, should have an extra, macroeconomic benefit.
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Both have similar amenities, such as subsidised fitness and child-care facilities, as well as a medical office.
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Its government has indeed subsidised its steelmakers, leading to a glut that was dumped on the world market.
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Professional-conversion programmes offer subsidised training to people switching to new careers in areas such as health care.
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But they leave some things out, like defensive duties against imports that are subsidised or sold below cost.
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Kids from the least well-off families go free, and even those with richer parents are heavily subsidised.
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A focus of its subsidised loans programme remains the financing of energy-efficient buildings and renewable energy projects.
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This week the club agreed on new anti-dumping rules to cover subsidised Chinese steel and the like.
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The animals were grazing on public land; Mr Bundy had long refused to pay the (heavily subsidised) fees.
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In any case, without the right hukou his children would not get subsidised education or health care there.
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But although green energy is subsidised in most of the EU and America, Germany's efforts are unusually generous.
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In a least one state, Vargas, subsidised food parcels were placed outside a polling station on election day.
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Northern Ireland's weak economy, subsidised to the tune of approximately 9 billion pounds annually, is already a drain.
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Hong Kong's Housing Authority was established in 1973 to provide low-cost rental housing and subsidised home ownership.
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But the EU executive also wants to strengthen Europe's ability to defend itself against heavily subsidised Chinese goods.
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It operates 2500 hospitals and 2410 schools and provides pensions, subsidised housing for workers, water, heating and power.
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But the public focused on decisions earlier this year to raise the price of petrol and other subsidised commodities.
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The first is the rapid expansion of charter schools, fee-free schools that are publicly subsidised but independently run.
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But since subsidised fuel costs more than the black-market stuff, many drivers are simply handing in their licences.
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If imports are surging, subsidised or sold below cost, threatening domestic industries and jobs, members can apply defensive duties.
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A judicial source confirmed the charges, which involve loans made by Bank Audi and subsidised by the central bank.
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This summer the (previously massively subsidised) official price of many types of petrol will be indexed to market rates.
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This is especially so if they cannot get subsidised foreign currency from the central bank to import raw materials.
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A litre of subsidised petrol that costs 10 US cents in Libya fetches ten times as much in Chad.
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Venezuela, which subsidised Cuba after the Soviet Union no longer could, is itself imploding and has cut back support.
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The region's direct risk is composed of 56% domestic bonds and 443% subsidised loans contracted from the federal government.
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It is handing out subsidised loans to small-scale and labour-intensive industries such as ceramics and bicycle parts.
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State Support for the Sector: Being an agricultural producer, Miratorg enjoys a favourable tax regime and subsidised interest rates.
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The 2016 budget includes steep rises in the prices of petrol, electricity and water (though they remain heavily subsidised).
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The region's direct risk is composed of 35303% domestic bonds and 44% subsidised loans contracted from the federal government.
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The government has expanded its social security network and some 70 million Egyptians have access to state subsidised bread.
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EXCLUSIVE-SHANGHAI UNITS OF UNILEVER, 3M ON LIST OF FIRMS ELIGIBLE FOR SUBSIDISED LOANS TO EASE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS -SOURCES
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The government would provide subsidised loans to farmers to replant 1 million hectares of rubber plantation between 2016 and 2019.
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Aluminij, which employs 900 workers, has been trying to reach a deal with the regional government on subsidised electricity prices.
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In other countries, ECD policy amounts to building new subsidised child-care centres with little regard to what happens there.
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Some traditional drugs are included in the government's "essential medicines list", meaning they can be obtained at heavily subsidised prices.
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But rather than pass the expense along to shoppers, Amazon has subsidised shipping with revenue from its cloud-computing operations.
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Local media has reported that coffee growers in the country have been pushing for reform of the government-subsidised sector.
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The city is also offering a clutch of refurbished or newly built apartments and houses for rent at subsidised rates.
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At Pimlico's office, plumbers can work out in a swanky gym, then load up on protein in the subsidised canteen.
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These mandate the number of workers and provide their families with schools, health care, subsidised food, electricity and so on.
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Jio, backed by the muscle of the Reliance group, has subsidised not just handsets but also, more importantly, data transmission.
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When Brazil opened thousands of subsidised cybercafés in the late 212s it brought internet access to 290% of poor neighbourhoods.
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The outgoing president, Michel Temer, managed some fiscal reforms, notably a cap on federal spending and cuts to subsidised lending.
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Unlike most public workers, they enjoy free train tickets, they receive free health care and, in some cases, subsidised housing.
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As an anti-communist bulwark, West Berlin was heavily subsidised, but not an attractive place to set up a business.
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It already hands out ration cards to people deemed "below the poverty line", entitling them to subsidised food and fuel.
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Aetna and UnitedHealthcare, two big American health insurers, recently created a plan that subsidised the cost of Apple's pricey watch.
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Subsidised credit will doubtless have the side-effect of shoring up support for Mr Orban, which may be the point.
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Unlike many other governments, however, Brazil's used its state development bank, BNDES, to funnel subsidised credit to Brazil's largest companies.
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He would rather see a mix of housing for different income brackets, as well as subsidised housing and homeless shelters.
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Historically the region's debt position has been small, with subsidised federal budget loans being the sole debt instrument since 2007.
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Successive Serbian governments kept electricity prices low for decades to avoid social discontent and have subsidised EPS through banking guarantees.
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We expect State Bank's profitability to improve as the proportion of its subsidised lending at below market rates phases out.
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But the aid and subsidised trade it has extracted have mainly enriched the Pyongyang elite and financed the nuclear programme.
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Some opponents of the programme have offered alternative suggestions for bringing people online, such as a government-subsidised data allowance.
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Housing affordability and income equality have surfaced as major issues in Hong Kong with demand for subsidised housing surging recently.
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That makes President Dilma Rousseff's recent noises about getting BNDES to pump out more subsidised credit all the more alarming.
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The tablets were available to colleges and universities at a subsidised price of Rs 999 ($14) to promote e-learning.
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Mr Flores now earns $245 a month, and gets such fringe benefits as subsidised food, health insurance and English classes.
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Incentives are useful but only if they have conditions; giving all employees subsidised gym membership does not seem to work.
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The changes have largely eliminated the system of heavily subsidised fuel prices, removing one strain on Nigeria's increasingly stretched finances.
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And because the ESM makes subsidised loans which countries must pay back, it would not involve open-ended fiscal transfers.
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Successive Serbian governments, determined to keep electricity prices low to avoid social discontent, have heavily subsidised EPS through banking guarantees.
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Positively, the region's debt structure is shifting towards a higher proportion of subsidised federal budget loans, which reduces refinancing pressure.
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They will increasingly become a vehicle for—and be subsidised by—services based on machine learning and other artificial-intelligence techniques.
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In fact, the government inherited a rich patchwork of charitable hospitals, school medical services and employer- and government-subsidised health care.
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Any nuclear power industry in Australia would likely have to be either government-owned or heavily subsidised to make it viable.
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Employers are offering incentives including above-inflation pay increases, flexible working conditions beyond the statutory minimum, subsidised meals and workplace nurseries.
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Mr Huotari, the think-tanker, advocates better checks on state-subsidised purchases of assets by Chinese firms and tougher accountancy standards.
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At the government-subsidised ration shop in Sargasan, a village in Gujarat, Chandana Prajapati places her thumb on a fingerprint scanner.
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For years European governments have fought among themselves over whether to raise tariffs on state-subsidised exports, such as Chinese steel.
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"Prices are rising daily, not monthly," said Gamal Darwish, a civil servant, as he queued to buy subsidised sugar in Cairo.
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The two live in a government-sponsored "reconciliation village", where perpetrators and survivors live side-by-side in neat, subsidised homes.
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It works through the Housing & Development Board (HDB), which administers the government-subsidised flats in which four-fifths of Singaporeans live.
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Older Cubans look back to the years when the island was a heavily subsidised Soviet satellite as ones of relative abundance.
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Trucks and donkeys hauled subsidised basics like fuel, flour and sugar to Morocco, and returned with hashish from Morocco's mountainous Rif.
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As well as taking three-and-four-year-olds, it offers subsidised places for kids from six months to three years.
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And even where it is subsidised, mothers often go part-time because the school day ends long before the working one.
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Water is heavily subsidised—it is cheaper than in Israel or Saudi Arabia—encouraging farmers to plant thirsty crops like bananas.
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Directly subsidised jobs are preferred to a proper attempt to ease the rules that deter firms from creating such posts themselves.
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In 2013 falling away-attendances prompted seven clubs to introduce perks for travelling fans, including drink tokens and even subsidised tickets.
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Last year Algeria approved new prices for subsidised products including electricity, gas, gasoline and diesel for the first time in years.
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To let businesses and consumers borrow at less exorbitant rates, public banks have increasingly filled the gap, offering cheap, subsidised loans.
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Egypt is the world's largest market for wheat, which is bought by the state and used to make heavily subsidised bread.
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It still remains to be seen how the phone is so cheap, and whether it has been subsidised by the government.
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"All trade with North Korea has to be subsidised," said Andrei Lankov, a Russian North Korea expert at Seoul's Kookmin University.
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China argued that it was not breaching that limit because only the grains procured by government should be counted as subsidised.
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It has increased the price of subsidised products twice since signing the agreement last year, and another increase is expected soon.
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In response to the spiralling controversy, military spokesperson Mohamed Samir reiterated today the armed forces' commitment to providing subsidised baby formula.
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In Mjolnerparken, the plan is to renovate and sell enough apartments to bring the share of subsidised units to below 223%.
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Successive Serbian governments, determined to keep electricity prices low to avoid public discontent, have heavily subsidised state-run power utility EPS.
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While some people benefit, the resulting shortages harm non-subsidised residents and incentivise flat-hoarding by tenants and neglect by landlords.
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The plethora of schemes in place for Indians to claim subsidised food, fuel, gas, electricity and so on are inefficient and corrupt.
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Another is to make it easier for women to participate in the workforce, by offering them free or highly subsidised child care.
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Before then Germany and many other European countries blocked operators from scheduled intercity routes in order to protect state-run, subsidised railways.
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Carbon emissions should be taxed, not subsidised by the sleepless masses in steerage and the even less fortunate souls who never fly.
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And despite the introduction of smart cards to limit how much subsidised food an individual can take, the subsidies are often stolen.
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Governments subsidised the construction of boats, which were job creators and symbols of national prestige at a time when empires were flagging.
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But it is also good for poorer people who are lucky enough to have subsidised accommodation within the sound of Bow Bells.
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The "2600th five-year plan for national informatisation", launched in 2016, will see the chip industry subsidised to the tune of $150bn.
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First, it fears encirclement by state-subsidised aircraft makers—not only Airbus and Bombardier, but ambitious state-supported Chinese and Russian producers.
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Sakha's debt portfolio is diversified with 45% domestic bonds, 36% subsidised federal budget loans at 0.1% interest rate and 16% bank loans.
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Qatar Airways, like Emirates and Etihad Airways, has faced accusations of being unfairly state-subsidised, giving it an advantage over other carriers.
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The European Commission said Latvia's subsidised loan scheme and loan guarantee scheme for companies will ensure that companies can continue their activities.
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The fuel sold at the new price will still be subsidised at 50% of its cost by the government, the source said.
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The NBG has introduced a voluntary scheme to convert housing loans into local currency at a subsidised exchange rate to reduce dollarisation.
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The national system of household registration, hukou, which restricts where people can receive subsidised public services, will be kinder to new graduates.
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However, Nigerian officials worry that the inevitable inflationary spike could lead to unrest, particularly if they are forced to raise subsidised petrol prices.
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Thanks to the official push for "indigenous innovation", Chinese automation firms are often subsidised even if their technology is not up to scratch.
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It also said that any state aid in the form of subsidised power prices was out of question because of open market regulations.
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Grab has pledged to provide subsidised smartphones to drivers as well, to entice more of them to get on and use the app.
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The rise is caused in part by the government's decision late last year to raise the price of petrol, which had been subsidised.
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The government had in the meantime planned state-subsidised tenders for the project and said TIM's change of heart could undermine those tenders.
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Jobs end, subsidised bus travel begins and people start to be seen as a financial burden rather than an asset to the state.
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Government schemes to get low earners buying homes by giving them massive subsidised loans are only stoking demand and making the situation worse.
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He said subsidised oil encouraged fuel-smuggling, adding that his country had spent $30 billion on oil subsidies in the last five years.
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Parachuting a lot of heavily subsidised London luvvies into deprived, northern working-class cities has not always turned out well in the past.
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Decrees issued three days later ban unlicensed gatherings and protests, as well as the trading or hoarding of fuel and other subsidised goods.
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A detailed study of rural Tanzania, where America's Millennium Challenge Corporation built power lines and subsidised connections, found little effect on adults' welfare.
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Philippe said the government is particularly keen on reducing spending on what he described as ineffective policies such as housing or subsidised jobs.
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Carriers are shifting away from offering customers a bundled service plan and subsidised handset towards EIPs in response to customer preference and competition.
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To help speed national afforestation, the government requires that land cleared of trees must be planted with new trees (which are not subsidised).
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Venezuela, whose like-minded regime has provided aid in the form of subsidised oil, is in economic crisis and sending less of it.
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Japanese have easy access to new medicines, whose prices are decided by the government and subsidised by the country's public health insurance system.
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Zhang acknowledged that Gwadar now had minuscule traffic - mostly Pakistani government-subsidised fertilizer imports - but he predicted a swift transformation in coming years.
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Most have no formal contracts with their employers, and are denied access to urban public services such as subsidised education and health care.
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A smart-card system that is meant to track bread purchases has been hacked, allowing some bakers to load up on subsidised flour.
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THE IRANIAN government seemed to know that its decision to hike the price of heavily subsidised fuel would be met with widespread anger.
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That's left many private and publicly subsidised after-school care facilities, called "gakudo", improvising measures to try to stop children contracting the illness.
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For example, the risk-weighting on subsidised mortgages could be reduced to as low as 20% from the Indonesian regulatory standard of 35%.
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Also, Nasution said the government will channel subsidised loans for export-oriented small medium enterprises and create a roadmap for the pharmaceutical industry.
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The 53 megawatt solar farm, KGAL's first non-subsidised renewable energy investment in Italy, will start operation in the second half of 2020.
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In November, Egypt's government said it would control prices of 10 essential goods, and the army rolled out trucks to distribute subsidised food.
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"Developing our own secure 5G networks will outweigh any perceived gains from partnering with heavily subsidised Chinese providers that answer to party leadership.".
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Until recently, it looked as though pro-natalist policies such as generous parental leave and subsidised nurseries could be left to those godless Europeans.
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Subsidised budget loans constitute around 45% of total direct risk, and their 0.1% annual interest rates allow the region to save on interest payments.
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American companies relying on imported inputs from China would suffer too (some companies do not mind having their inputs subsidised by the Chinese government).
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However, default risk on market debt is mitigated by 11033% of the direct debt being contracted through the state support mechanism, at subsidised rates.
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Much depends on Ms Warren's policies to improve the life of the precarious middle class, for instance through health insurance and subsidised child care.
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For example, they could create a "high-risk pool", in which the sick could buy coverage that is directly subsidised (yet probably more expensive).
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And private firms must compete with state-owned ones from China and the Middle East, which have access to subsidised credit and raw materials.
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Among a group of rice-farmers in the village of Jalalpur are some who have dabbled with insurance, thanks to the government-subsidised scheme.
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A quarter of pupils at Celebration School and two-thirds at Celebration High School qualify for free or subsidised lunches, a proxy for poverty.
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However, default risk is mitigated by 42% of estimated direct debt at end-2016 being contracted through the state support mechanism, at subsidised rates.
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What has emerged instead is an economy dominated by state-subsidised enterprises with a regulatory regime geared towards the theft of American intellectual property.
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"But many subsidies are poorly targeted, disproportionally benefiting wealthier segments of the population that use much more of the subsidised fuel," the report states.
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Gulf states give their citizens subsidised fuel, electricity and water, as well as loans or grants for marriage and scholarships to expensive foreign universities.
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Petrol is heavily subsidised in Libya: a litre costs $0.12 at the official exchange rate and just two cents at the black-market rate.
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But for sectors particularly exposed to government policy, such as healthcare, which is heavily subsidised in Australia, the vote is shaping up as crucial.
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Offering heavily subsidised classes in Mandarin, the institutes have aroused suspicions in the West that China may be using them to exert political influence.
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Other GPs grumble that Babylon is stealing their young and healthy patients, funding for whom has historically subsidised the care of older, infirm folk.
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Whatever the rationale, its decision has hurt the poor, who could have had access to subsidised health care were they living in another state.
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For those who are employed by businesses above a certain size, America requires employers to provide private insurance subsidised by a regressive tax break.
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Incrementally higher wages will not much reduce the welfare bill for Walmart's workers; campaigners will go on claiming that low-wage firms are subsidised.
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Monetary financing of pre-election policy loan programmes and the subsidised Housing Mortgage Program (HMP) sharply increased the money supply, weighing on the tugrik.
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But with real prices now near the subsidised prices, there is less room for savings from cuts than there was a few years ago.
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FRANCE is renowned, fairly or not, for its long holidays and short working weeks, subsidised farmers and unionised workers, high culture and higher taxes.
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The bureaucracy enforces it: everyone has a hukou (household registration) which provides subsidised health and education, almost always in a person's place of birth.
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Instead, the government has put the army in charge of a subsidised food-distribution system, known as CLAP and modelled on Cuba's ration book.
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Uganda relies heavily on aid - both grants and subsidised credit - for its public spending and the World Bank is one of its major sources.
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The debt is netted of EUR11033m loans subsidised by the national government and about EUR150m short-term debt to offset temporary collection/payment mismatch.
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In 2100 it built more subsidised public housing for low-income renters (over 2000,000 units) than England, with a population one-tenth the size.
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The particular hue he favours, the one that appears in countless posters touting every official project from e-government to subsidised cooking gas, is orange.
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Now that&aposs a big if, but we&aposve seen for years, Canada dumping lumbers, heavily subsidised lumber industry in Canada, into the United States.
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Mr Moreno says he will treble a cash transfer to poor households, raise pensions, provide 100,000 subsidised houses a year and build 40 technical universities.
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Britons in a post-Brexit Europe could incur steep roaming charges on their mobile phones, or lose their right to subsidised medical treatment while travelling.
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State Financial Support As at end-2015, 47% of the outstanding direct debt came from state support mechanisms, Asturias benefits from subsidised rates of interests.
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Two-thirds of the patients, stabilised on a regular daily heroin dose, find a job either in the open market or in state-subsidised schemes.
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Along with the foundation of the welfare state came the idea that culture—encouraged, subsidised and even initiated by the state—could revitalise British society.
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It has partly reopened its border with Colombia after shutting it last year (largely to stop smuggling of fuel and other subsidised goods into Colombia).
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Subsidised rental apartments are generally only available to those with household incomes below S$1,500 a month who are unable to bunk up with relatives.
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Then, in November, its central bank floated the Egyptian pound, which had been overvalued for months, and allowed the price of subsidised fuel to rise.
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Last July, the UAE said it was shifting from a system of fixed, subsidised fuel prices to adjusting prices monthly in response to global trends.
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Local parents are subsidised by the government, but for others, fees for the most expensive package can run to 15,000 yuan ($2,200, £1,700) a month.
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At the very least it should press SOEs to boost returns as a way of showing that they are not underpricing products or being subsidised.
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Duties against dumped or subsidised products covered 3.8% of American imports at the end of 2016, according to calculations by Chad Bown of the PIIE.
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Her in-laws also refused to transfer the public distribution card to her name, denying her subsidised staples such as rice, wheat and cooking oil.
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Subsidised language lessons are available, but support is woefully weak, says Nichole Mosty, who was until recently an American-Icelandic member of the Alþingi [spoken].
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In 2016-17 Mr Khan exceeded his target for overall housing completions, yet fell well short of the one for "affordable" (ie, state-subsidised) dwellings.
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In the past two months his government has raised the prices of water, fuel, electricity and public transport, all of which are still heavily subsidised.
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But political opposition to measures involving subsidy cuts, devaluation and new taxes while tens of millions rely on state-subsidised food, make the programme ambitious.
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Among these remedies is the option of imposing new tariffs if you find yourself facing imports that are surging, subsidised or being sold below cost.
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Making sure each farmer gets one dose of subsidised fertiliser and all poor families their share of rice is fiendish without knowing who they are.
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"This looks like a questionable deal between two heavily state-subsidised competitors to skirt the recent findings of the U.S. government," a Boeing spokesman said.
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The government had also approved this year higher and new taxes for some products and increases in subsidised fuel prices for the third straight year.
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The United Arab Emirates, where Emirates is based, and Qatar last year resolved disputes with the U.S. government related to allegations their airlines were subsidised.
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The figure marked an oversubscription of 13 times, also a record since the group began selling subsidised flats in 2013, according to the Housing Society.
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As we've previously observed, the bulk of this surplus value had flowed to consumers, and to consumers who are not producers, subsidised by transfer payments.
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However, refinancing risk on market debt is mitigated by 73% of Cantabria's direct debt being contracted through the state support mechanism, at subsidised interest rates.
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Though it may seem like an odd suggestion on a brisk early-April morning, year-round subsidised ice-cream for children could improve educational attainment.
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The world where a lucky few post pictures in exchange for subsidised travel to exotic locales, to which we, the thirsty masses, yearn to follow.
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China has, unsurprisingly, strongly denied it has subsidised its aluminium producers, the base of the WTO complaint, and can be expected to defend itself rigorously.
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Britain, at least, might be blocked from selling subsidised surplus electricity from Hinkley Point into the European grid, adding to doubts over Hinkley Point's viability.
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The official exchange rate is 42,000 rials per dollar and is used mostly for imports of state subsidised basic goods such as food and medicine.
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However, refinancing risk on market debt is mitigated by 19% of the direct debt being contracted through the state support mechanism, at subsidised interest rates.
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NEADS subsidised their purchases of yarn, upgraded their loom skills through expert training, and offered advice from designers on fashionable colours and patterns, said Saikia.
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The company also lays on free lunches on Fridays and subsidised gym memberships to attempt to attract the best motorbike and cycle couriers in town.
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Halk also benefits from its policy role as the sole provider of subsidised loans to small businesses through cooperatives (end-1H13: 14% of gross loans).
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Hong Kong's Housing Authority was established in 1973 with an aim to provide low-cost rental housing and subsidised home ownership for the city's residents.
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However, the jury is still out on strategies adopted by the German power companies, which are under pressure from government-subsidised wind and solar electricity.
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The U.S. Commerce Department also said on Monday that Chinese steel wheels exports were heavily subsidised and that it could impose duties on the product.
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The composition of the republic's direct risk differs unfavourably from that of its national peers, most of which rely heavily on subsidised federal budget loans.
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Sugathapala, who previously worked on energy issues in the government, said household that use small amounts of electricity are also heavily subsidised by richer households.
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From encouraging more housebuilding to irrigation schemes, improving tourism infrastructure or providing subsidised loans to women to buy vans, many probably do more good than harm.
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Like other Gulf oil exporters, it has for years subsidised food, fuel, electricity and water, keeping prices very low in an effort to maintain social order.
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In 270 Congress created the DC Opportunity Scholarship Programme, the first school-voucher scheme directly subsidised by the federal government (states and charities subsidise many others).
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Mr Krane says that for years the oil company was forced to provide Sabic with subsidised feedstock, essentially supporting a rival to its own downstream operations.
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These include smoking bans, high cigarette taxes, warnings about the dangers of smoking, bans on tobacco advertising and publicly subsidised services that help smokers to quit.
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Letting off flares and blowing whistles, they chanted slogans against the president's plans to shake up the heavily subsidised and indebted state-run SNCF rail company.
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If any insurers stuck around—not a sure thing—the exchanges would come to resemble high-risk pools, where the ill go to buy subsidised coverage.
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Interestingly, richer folk were also more likely to buy the subsidised healthy food and then spend the savings they had accrued on yet more healthy food.
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The reforms succeeded in boosting the amount that patients could claim on their medical-insurance policies (some 95% of Chinese are enrolled in government-subsidised schemes).
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Reliance Jio, a network that has upended the local mobile industry with heavily discounted 4G data plans, sells subsidised, Jio-branded phones that use KaiOS software.
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No one talks of more radical change, such as swiftly injecting competition into the state-run, hugely subsidised railways, where debt amounts to more than €40bn.
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Brazil's central bank is currently forced to set Selic at an artificially high level to offset the impact of BNDES's subsidised rate on the wider economy.
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Palang Pracharat loudly touts the welfare cards the junta has introduced, which provide a small monthly stipend to be spent on subsidised goods at designated shops.
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In addition, the Commission on Friday announced the extension of duties to prevent imports of dumped and subsidised Chinese solar panel components via Taiwan and Malaysia.
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In India, those the government has subsidised in the countryside are mostly simple "twin leach-pit" models that turn faecal sludge over time into harmless compost.
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They hope to get a ration of eight bread rolls for the subsidised price of 1,200 bolívares (less than $0.15 at the black-market exchange rate).
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Airbus and Bombardier's manoeuvre "looks like a questionable deal between two heavily state-subsidised competitors to skirt the recent findings of the US government", Boeing said.
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Under the financial scheme for PAT's PSEs, PSEs such as TT fund their investments with their own debt that are subsidised or guaranteed by the province.
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Well, for starters, drivers themselves pay for to access the app, rather than the app's operation effectively being subsidised by venture capital, as the other are.
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She pledged to increase land supply where possible and launch a new subsidised "starter homes" scheme to help families not eligible for cheap-rental public housing.
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The regional government said previously the consortium had requested subsidised electricity prices and government guarantees for all future loans, which it was not ready to provide.
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American critics call Huawei a company protected, subsidised and perhaps controlled by some combination of the Communist Party, the People's Liberation Army and China's security state.
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With the expiry of the relaxed regulation, all subsidised mortgages (both new and those previously applied at a lower weight) will be risk-weighted at 35%.
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China late last year launched two probes into whether Australian barley was dumped into China, and whether Canberra has subsidised sales - allegations widely seen as politically motivated.
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India uses rice and wheat that it buys from local farmers at a fixed price to supply subsidised food to the poor and meet any emergency needs.
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However, refinancing risk on market debt is mitigated by a high 73% of Cantabria's direct debt being contracted through the state support mechanism, at subsidised interest rates.
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However, default risk on market debt is mitigated by the fact that 19% of the direct debt is contracted through the state support mechanism, at subsidised rates.
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Economists say this was probably caused by the end of a hiring premium for small firms and a reduction in the number of government-subsidised job contracts.
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As the paper says Contrary to Bagehot, they lent at subsidised rates, on the basis of hard-to-value collateral and to a wide range of counterparties.
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Crucially, the money would largely come from recycling funds from around 950 existing welfare schemes, including those that offer subsidised food, water, fertiliser and much else besides.
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To cut immigrants' high unemployment rate, the right wants to let new arrivals work for below-union wages, whereas the left wants to give them subsidised jobs.
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Government policies that encourage imitation, like tax breaks with attract FDI or subsidised electricity prices for big manufacturers, are not the same as ones that encourage innovation.
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In Zambia, studies have found that a third of subsidised fertiliser never reaches the intended beneficiaries, and is probably resold commercially, with crooked middlemen pocketing the subsidy.
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Yet, to cries of protest on the left, he has also nearly halved the number of subsidised jobs, preferring to encourage private firms to create jobs themselves.
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No matter how high premiums rise and how many healthy people leave the market, some subsidised enrollees, who have already reached their premium caps, will keep buying.
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Egypt imports around 10 million tonnes of wheat each year, most of which goes to providing cheap, subsidised bread to feed its exploding population of 90 million.
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It also seeks a freer hand to impose duties on dumped, subsidised or surging imports, and it wants American courts, not NAFTA panels, to resolve investment disputes.
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The organisation has been able to do little to stop China's state-owned enterprises from exporting the surpluses created by their subsidised overcapacity, thus overwhelming producers elsewhere.
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Last year, the Pentagon decided not to pay $300 million in pledged military funding, and Congress effectively blocked a subsidised sale of F-16 jets to Pakistan.
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"The market demand for subsidised housing is huge ... We are willing to work on more projects but more land is needed," a Housing Society spokeswoman told Reuters.
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Those students have subsidised locals, kept courses in the hard sciences viable, acted as informal ambassadors on their return—and eased skills shortages when they have stayed.
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In February, India approved subsidised sales of solar pumps to millions of farmers, which it expects will cut diesel demand by about 1.1 million tonnes a year.
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Precarious jobs in the low-wage sector are implicitly subsidised, welfare benefits have risen by less than inflation for years, and the tax system punishes single parents.
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Richer households will gain the most from the subsidised savings accounts for the young, and from an increase in the already-generous annual tax-free savings limit.
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Saudi Arabia wants to reduce the bill for state-subsidised healthcare for its citizens, who suffer globally high rates of obesity and related diseases such as diabetes.
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Environmentalists, many of whom distrust CCS, say the credit is most beneficial for firms wanting to use the subsidised CO23 to inject into oil wells to bolster recovery.
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At the same time, the benefits rolls are filled with fake beneficiaries, created by those seeking to palm undeserved rations of fertiliser, food or some other subsidised good.
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A disastrous scheme that subsidised fuel for agricultural boilers, in which Arlene Foster, the DUP's leader, and other party figures were involved, wasted hundreds of millions of pounds.
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The European Commission, which conducts trade talks on behalf of governments, reckons the EU needs to bolster its defences against subsidised steel and other products, particularly from China.
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Although it is possible that private electricity-providers are fleecing customers, it is more likely that the industry was previously subsidised through higher taxes or uncounted environmental costs.
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The government says the changes are necessary to ensure future pensions for the farmers, whose benefits have so far been almost completely subsidised by the debt-ridden state.
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The Western Cape government is releasing the site of a former hospital, for example, with the proviso that developers set aside half of new units for subsidised housing.
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Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, the federal government has also subsidised people to buy insurance and introduced fines for those who do not.
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Free meals at schools and subsidised ones at "Amma"-branded canteens, where a good meal costs 5 rupees ($0.08), have ended severe malnutrition in the state, for instance.
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Subsidised electricity prices are very low in Algeria compared with neighboring countries, and Energy Minister Mohamed Arkab earlier this week said there was no plan to raise prices.
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He found himself hotly defending not only the cost of the new buildings, but also theatre itself—and whether, in a recession, it should be subsidised at all.
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They also initiated 25 trade "remedies", such as anti-dumping duties or countervailing tariffs against subsidised imports, which claim to redress unfair trade (rather than restrict free trade).
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Predictable Institutional Framework A solid legislative framework defines Italian regions' responsibilities and revenue predictability, including access to subsidised loans with long-term tenures/maturities from the central government.
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TIM's decision not to invest in areas where it said it could not guarantee a return on its investment forced Rome to step in with state subsidised tenders.
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The Affordable Care Act expanded Medicaid—the health-insurance system for the very poorest Americans—and subsidised slightly less poor ones to buy health insurance in statewide marketplaces.
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Adding to Samsung's woes last year was the arrival of billionaire Mukesh Ambani's new telecom venture Jio, with heavily subsidised handsets to get customers on its 4G network.
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As the battle for women's votes heats up, Modi has pointed to programmes to provide toilets and subsidised cooking gas cylinders as evidence his administration cares for women.
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Pakistan bought several batches of F-16 planes, built by Lockheed Martin Corp, from Washington before relations soured and the United States cut off subsidised sales in 2016.
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This is unlike contract deals in some Western countries where the total cost of a phone is subsidised and there is a penalty for dropping contracts mid-way.
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Flood insurance has traditionally been subsidised to encourage people to purchase it, but the subsidy has been lowered after the government absorbed huge losses in Sandy and Katrina.
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Hard currency will be made available at a subsidised rate for purchases of basic goods and medicine, state television quoted a government statement about the plan as saying.
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CAIRO, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Egypt will lower prices of subsidised food staples from December, the state news agency MENA quoted Supply Minister Ali Moselhy as saying on Saturday.
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Little Ones, based in Tokyo, was named a World Habitat Award winner on Thursday for converting vacant and abandoned houses into homes for single mothers at subsidised rates.
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Clutching their babies in the stifling heat, they denounced the recent hikes for the subsidised product, while carrying empty baby bottles to underscore the severity of the situation.
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This should allow the mainly state-owned distributor banks to cut the lending rate for KUR loans to 9% compared with above 20% for other non-subsidised micro-loans.
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The gambling industry says that it generates thousands of jobs and makes huge "social contributions", including sponsoring sports teams and providing subsidised food in clubs such as the Revesby.
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Ciro Gomes, a left-wing former governor of the north-eastern state of Ceará, favours interventionist policies of the sort that aggravated Brazil's economic crisis, such as subsidised lending.
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Lebanon's National New Agency said earlier the prosecutor brought charges against Mikati, his brother and son, as well as the bank, for making gains by obtaining subsidised housing loans.
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Theoretically, if renewables were to make up 100% of the market, the wholesale price of electricity would fall to zero, deterring all new investment that was not completely subsidised.
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Through what later came to be known as "financial repression", they used capital controls, cheap exchange rates and subsidised loans to channel money into corporate investment and state infrastructure.
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In subsidised environments, the profit-maximising game for investors is to invest only when they think they have maximised their net return from future expected subsidies, revenues and costs.
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And national health insurance, "employer- and government-subsidised health care", offered only minimal general-practice care to a minority of the working population, namely low-waged blue-collar workers.
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A piece in The Economist this week points out that: Wallonia boasts one cow for every three humans and its lavishly subsidised farmers are wary of cheap Canadian competition.
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In last year's regional elections the government placed booths at polling stations where voters were required to renew their electronic "fatherland cards", which entitle them to receive subsidised food.
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Germans turned to China for cheap sources of crystalline silicon solar panels, not least because subsidised land and loans enabled China's fledgling manufacturers to undercut European and American competitors.
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They are lobbying for rules that would let the European Union place unilateral sanctions on subsidised foreign rivals, Chinese carriers among them, even before any investigation has been concluded.
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The state also expanded "active labour-market policies", such as training and job matching, subsidised daycare to help women work full-time, and required the unemployed to seek work.
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On March 20th the Global Times, a Chinese newspaper, published an editorial clamouring for tariffs, arguing that subsidised American soybeans were "an important reason for the world's soybean oversupply".
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So Texas and fellow plaintiffs say they are put out by DAPA and DACA because their states foot the bill for subsidised driver's licences for immigrants shielded from deportation.
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Some 10-20% of Nigerian fuel is then smuggled to neighbouring countries, according to the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria, as gasoline is heavily subsidised in the country.
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Governor Steve Beshear, a rare Appalachian Democrat, complied with the reform by creating a statewide health-insurance exchange and expanding Medicaid (government-subsidised coverage for the poor and disabled).
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After all, the auction of the government's "contracts for difference" grants a 22017-year subsidy to the winners, whereas for decades taxes from North Sea oil subsidised the government.
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Reacting to accusations by European industry that China and Indonesia are flooding the European market with cheap, subsidised steel, the Commission's investigation could eventually lead to duties on imports.
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"We are not fooling ourselves, it is initially a subsidised business model," said HHM's Freymueller, adding that this would be the case for the introduction of any new technology.
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Renewable energy capacities were expanding globally, having succeeded in transitioning from subsidised output towards commercial profitability, which was attracting would-be investors, he said in a call with reporters.
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"We are not fooling ourselves, it is initially a subsidised business model," said HHM's Freymueller, adding that this would be the case for the introduction of any new technology.
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And, given the sheer scale of the expansion that is planned — and the low proportion of subsidised accommodation — it will still be a case of too little, too late.
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A new compliance report from the Geneva trade watchdog found that the Airbus A380 and A3503 jetliners continue to be subsidised as a result of past European government loans.
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A new compliance report from the Geneva trade watchdog found that the Airbus A380 and A350 jetliners continue to be subsidised as a result of past European government loans.
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Flat bread is a subsidised staple for Syrians, who have suffered under a conflict estimated to have killed several hundred thousand people and forced millions to flee their homes.
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Alleging that Chinese companies enjoy subsidised credit, energy and raw materials, America and the EU slap anti-dumping duties on 7% (see chart) and 5% respectively of their Chinese imports.
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So, to rephrase Texas Monthly's question, if as a passenger you have a choice between a heavily subsidised Uber fare or a more expensive RideAustin one, which would you choose?
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If the AHCA passes in its current form, many of the 10m Americans who currently get subsidised insurance will no longer be able to afford it, unless prices fall dramatically.
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Some homeowners will be compensated by the national flood-insurance programme, which is subsidised by the government, in effect paying people to live in areas at high risk of flooding.
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After a young surfer was killed in April, Western Australia's Labor government subsidised 1,000 personal deterrent devices called Shark Shields, which emit an electromagnetic field supposed to ward off attacks.
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Before technological progress brought prices down, many countries subsidised renewable-energy sources to the tune of $1 per tonne of carbon dioxide avoided and often spent huge sums on it.
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In America, points out Christian Wetherbee of Citi, a bank, the United States Postal Service has subsidised the rise of e-commerce by systematically underpricing the cost of parcel deliveries.
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He is expanding funding for many programmes, including subsidised child care, affordable housing and tax credits for the poor, and has expressed support for universal health insurance for all Californians.
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Bahrain ploughs 80% of the take from work-permit fees back into the domestic economy through Tamkeen, which offers subsidised loans and grants to help businesses buy equipment and training.
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The states have "standing", two Fifth Circuit Court judges held, because they are on the hook to pay for subsidised driver's licences for the individuals protected under DAPA and DACA.
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Governments are under pressure to boost housing affordability and fix the growing problem of urban homelessness, with measures including limits on foreign buyers and more subsidised housing for the poor.
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The states' supposed injury—having to pay for subsidised drivers' licences of DAPA recipients—is a rather weak claim, Justice Breyer suggested, to "standing", a constitutional requirement for all lawsuits.
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The country's household-registration, or hukou, system, which is used to define who is given access to subsidised health care and education in cities, has created a huge social divide.
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It and all telecoms carriers really lost out on the smartphone boom when it come to value-added services on top of basic mobile data connectivity and selling subsidised devices.
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Subsidised gas for households is a source of corruption in Ukraine because businesses divert it for their own use to avoid paying market prices, draining money from the state budget.
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A new compliance report to be published as soon as Monday found that the Airbus A350 jetliner continues to be subsidised as a result of earlier government loans, they said.
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Ms Jayapal also points to the prevalence of skilled Indian-Americans (perhaps subsidised in their first jobs by well-off parents) who work as assistants to senators and representatives in Washington.
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However, Japan needs to avoid the problems that beset Germany's liberalisation, particularly a collapse in wholesale power prices due to a flood of subsidised green energy that gutted its big utilities.
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The idea of student loans is still a relatively new one in many parts of Europe, where university education in several countries is either entirely or largely subsidised by the government.
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The expansion of lending by state banks at ruinous, subsidised rates under Dilma Rousseff, president for five years until her impeachment in 2016, has been reversed under her successor, Michel Temer.
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More often, migrants are subjected to a kind of apartheid, in effect excluded from subsidised urban health care and other public services because they have no urban hukou, or residence permit.
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It has so far opened investigations into 65 potential cases of dumped or subsidised products (from Chinese staples to Colombian citric acid), compared with 44 in the same period of 2016.
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In January, for example, American Paper Bag moved its corporate headquarters near to Scranton, thanks in part to employment tax credits, funding for workforce training and a $22017m subsidised government loan.
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Jay Bertelsen ("Christian Non-Union Conservative Teacher Fighting for Funding") has taught computer science outside Tucson for 25 years; his children qualify for Arizona's state-subsidised health care for poor families.
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Demoralised opposition voters stayed away, and the regime managed to persuade many poor Venezuelans that if they did not vote for the government they might not receive rations of subsidised food.
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In its impatience, the government has resorted to opening subsidised food stalls in big cities to dampen the rise in the price of groceries, which Mr Albayrak has branded "food terrorism".
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And if they do move to cities, many of them are still shut out of subsidised urban public services, such as health care and education, simply because of their rural origins.
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The states' supposed injury—having to pay for the subsidised driving licences of DAPA recipients—is a rather weak claim, Justice Breyer suggested, to "standing", a constitutional requirement for all lawsuits.
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Healthscope was a high-profile listing in 2014, with its shares rising steadily amid hopes that it would benefit from the country's ageing population and a heavily state-subsidised health system.
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It's another brick in the trade wall being erected by the Trump administration as it seeks to insulate domestic manufacturers from the flood of what it deems unfairly subsidised Chinese products.
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However, it has been forced to push up taxes and increase subsidised gasoline and diesel prices, scaling back a vast welfare system that has in the past helped ease social tensions.
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That is based on an estimate that 34% of recent immigrants have no health insurance at all, while 31% depend on Medicaid or subsidised health insurance (under the Affordable Care Act).
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Greenpeace as an organisation is fully vegetarian and mostly (if not entirely) vegan, offering subsidised vegetarian and vegan lunches to staff, but there are individual meat-eaters who work there too.
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But the evidence suggests that when insurers tried to sell these parametric products (initially for crops in low-income countries), the take-up was very low, even when premiums were subsidised.
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Previously social-service agencies used a "staircase" model: to qualify for a subsidised flat, homeless people first had to control their behavioural problems (such as addiction, petty crime or mental illness).
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A drop in deliveries of subsidised oil from Venezuela, caused by a slump in production and by American sanctions on firms that ship Venezuelan oil, led to fuel shortages in September.
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Squeezed between two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo, Brunei provided cradle-to-grave benefits for its 420,000 citizens, including zero taxes, subsidised housing and free education and health care.
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For while Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini hailed the proposal as a "brilliant operation", Italy's creaking, state-subsidised Fiat factories are likely to bear the brunt of any production-related cost savings.
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Many were beneficiaries of such schemes as Amma canteens and pharmacies, which sell subsidised meals and medicine, or of her government's handouts of blenders, fans and other goodies, adorned with her picture.
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The school is in a poor part of America's capital and almost all its students are eligible for free or subsidised meals, which means their parents may struggle to make ends meet.
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Mrs May also promised to add £2bn to the budget for "affordable" (that is, state-subsidised) housing, and to give private renters "effective redress if their landlord is not maintaining their property".
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They similarly earn low wages and face official discrimination as a result of the hukou system that shuts many of them out of subsidised urban services such as education and health care.
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They could raise the birth rate by providing subsidised child care, which would create a wave of new workers in a couple of decades, just when the other reforms are petering out.
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Caracas has long supplied Havana with 100,000 barrels per day of subsidised oil, but Venezuela's economic and political crises have forced it to cut shipments by as much as 40 per cent.
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CORRUPTION ISSUE Subsidised gas for households is a source of corruption in Ukraine because businesses divert it for their own use to avoid paying market prices, draining money from the state budget.
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But French rules on schemes like apprenticeships or subsidised job creation change faster than firms can fill in the forms, or decipher the alphabet soup of acronyms such schemes are known by.
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The tighter immigration rules they have set up to replace expatriate labour from other Arab states with natives, or Asians, have hit the remittance flows through which they subsidised their poorer brethren.
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But even if it is unwilling to go that far, it can use the billions in aid and subsidised trade that it gives North Korea to press change upon the young dictator.
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The price rise has become a headache for the government of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, which may plan sales of subsidised onions through the state-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB).
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Separately, India's 6.3 million women's self-help groups - microfinance initiatives that borrow small amounts of money at subsidised interest rates from state-owned banks - will get 2 million rupee collateral-free loans.
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They also organise subsidised group tours in rural prefectures, in which half the participants are locals and the other half from cities, to encourage urbanites to marry and move to the countryside.
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A new compliance report expected to be published as soon as Monday has found that the Airbus A350 jetliner continues to be subsidised as a result of earlier government loans, they said.
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The drop would ease pressure on Indian sugar mills to export surplus sugar, likely supporting global prices that fell more than 20% last year, partly due to subsidised shipments from the country.
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They also get three weeks' holiday every year (subsidised by the firm to the tune of $5,000 per person), a month-long sabbatical every three years, and a monthly massage at a spa.
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But the rising prices and periodic shortages in state-subsidised food have forced the government to increase its purchases, burning rapidly through those newfound dollars when it is meant to be cutting spending.
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Freddy Bernal, who runs a government programme that distributes subsidised food, challenged the regime's argument that its failings—including hyperinflation—are the result of an "economic war" waged by subversives and foreign powers.
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A team of adult supervisors, eyes darting back and forth, guides boisterous children in fluorescent yellow jackets through the ticket barrier, on their way to a colonie de vacances, French subsidised summer camp.
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And passengers are being treated humanely even as fares have remained low (in part because they are subsidised by those who are willing to pay a bit more for perks like flexible tickets).
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But he knows well that it will take more than fine words to overcome German suspicions that the French (and other budget-busters) simply want their fiscal recklessness subsidised by the more frugal.
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Philippe said that the government, which is under pressure from Brussels and the IMF to detail its savings plans, wanted to reduce spending in particular on ineffective policies like housing or subsidised jobs.
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Analysts think its airline operations are loss-making, and that they are cross-subsidised by other parts of the group, including Doha's airport, hotels and a monopoly on alcohol and duty-free shopping.
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In 2015 144,000 of the very poorest among the over-65s received higher monthly payments of at least HK$3,240 (as well as health-care discounts and, in many cases, subsidised public housing).
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Chemicals firms in America, beaten down by rivals from the Middle East that enjoyed cheap feedstocks and others from China feasting on subsidised capital, had not invested in new local plants in years.
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With their new principles, the Republicans' potential tax base actually shrank, because they ruled out a controversial but lucrative "border adjustment" to the corporate tax, which would have taxed imports and subsidised exports.
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The government offered a fiscal package of about 27 billion rupees ($400 million) a year, in November to provide subsidised credit to exporters, hoping it could marginally help stabilise exports in coming months.
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Semiconductors have been a major flash point in the ongoing trade war between the two countries, with U.S. officials criticizing what they say are state-subsidised efforts to undermine the U.S. chip industry.
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Businessmen said the black market had been propelled by a sense that authorities were holding back for fear of stoking inflation in a country where tens of millions rely on state-subsidised food.
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Semiconductors have been a major flash point in the ongoing trade war between the two countries, with U.S. officials criticizing what they say are state-subsidised efforts to undermine the U.S. chip industry.
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Semiconductors have been a major flash point in the ongoing trade war between the two countries, with U.S. officials criticising what they say are state-subsidised efforts to undermine the U.S. chip industry.
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With nearly 200 clinics cross Australia, I-MED has 18 percent of the nation's diagnostic imaging services market, which is partially subsidised by the government, according to a September report by researcher IBISWorld.
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If the Government subsidised the course in the same way it funds apprenticeships or computer science courses, we estimate that the number of candidates we could train increase ten-fold within a year.
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The wind industry in general has seen a steep decline in prices and increased competition as governments move away from guaranteeing generous fixed, subsidised tariffs for power towards a competitive auction-based system.
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His most concrete proposals are also the most controversial: a one-off tax on oligarchs, a Rbs20083,000 ($415) minimum monthly wage and subsidised loans to allow more people to buy their own homes.
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Sustainable Risks, Healthy Liquidity: Sardinia's stock of direct debt at end-2016 remained at EUR1.1 billion, excluding EUR215 million subsidised loans to pay down commercial liabilities, and EUR14 million debt charged to the state.
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BEIRUT, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Former Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati denied charges brought by a prosecutor involving illicit gains from subsidised housing loans, his communications adviser said on Wednesday, calling the case politically motivated.
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In order to obtain a $12bn loan from the IMF last year, his government has raised the price of subsidised fuel and electricity, brought in new taxes and allowed the Egyptian pound to float.
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I also understand from my own sources that cashback at some retailers — such as Amazon where Curve doesn't have any kind of formal partnership — are being cross subsidised from revenue Curve is generating elsewhere.
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Moreover, though some problems can be fixed by laws, such as paid parental leave and subsidised child care, others, such as the gender pay gap and harassment, endure despite prohibitions (albeit often shabbily enforced).
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It distributes subsidised food, such as pasta, rice and cooking oil, only to holders of biometric identity cards which the regime also uses to gather data on citizens, and insists they show when voting.
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The measures, which are still under discussion, include fixing the exchange rate for individuals repaying mortgages in dollars 20 points lower than the market rate, with the difference to be subsidised by the government.
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The cause of this widespread denial of basic rights—the sort of derogation which, if it happened abroad, would be denounced by American diplomats—is the volatile and eccentric way those rights are subsidised.
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This improved its debt structure by increasing the share of subsidised funding to 70% of direct risk at end-2015 (2014: 34%), and by shifting about 40% of the region's refinancing needs to 2018.
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While it is critical to provide support for transitional housing, the government should prioritise developing more public rental housing or subsidised flats, including by re-zoning vacant school premises and industrial buildings, he said.
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The European Commission decided not to reinstate provisional import tariffs on Argentine biodiesel in September, though it considered imports were subsidised and a threat to the EU industry, saying it needed to collect further information.
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The German life insurance market has relatively high contract durations, which increased significantly in the last decade due to the introduction of government-subsidised annuity products and a change in the tax law in 23530.
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Bai Chongen, an economist at Tsinghua University and policy adviser to China's central bank, in April cautioned against relying on the subsidised state sector for growth, citing its poor returns on investment and falling productivity.
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Drivers of almendrones—ride-shares that substitute for a functioning public transport system in Havana—will be given magnetic cards with which they are expected to buy a set quantity of "subsidised" petrol every month.
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In addition to building and running mosques, the Diyanet and its local arm, DITIB (see glossary), provided extensive support to communities, running football clubs, summer camps and a subsidised funeral service for Muslims across Europe.
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As developers moved in next, with their glassy towers, he fought to set up a conservation district and to reserve a share of all new-built units at subsidised rents for actors, artists and locals.
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He said the only feasible power generation investments in Europe are state-subsidised projects with long-term government-guaranteed power sales prices, such as solar, wind, and biomass, as well as nuclear energy in Britain.
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If that bill was too big to swallow, a second-best would be to impose the new rules on new mortgages, leaving the stock of subsidised existing loans to run down over the coming decades.
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Their response has been to strike at those most easily displaced: rural migrants whose household-registration papers, or hukou, make them ineligible for urban benefits such as social housing or subsidised health care and education.
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Low wages are not new to Cuba, and they are augmented by heavily-subsidised food, along with free healthcare and other government handouts, but the contrast with a relatively successful new middle class is stark.
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The affirmation and Stable Outlooks reflect our view that Naples' stock of debt and its equivalent (such as subsidised loans) will remain in line with our expectations due to spending control and more accurate budgeting.
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China's central bank has issued a series of steps to cushion the economic blow of the virus outbreak, cutting the benchmark lending rate and making cheap subsidised loans to encourage bank lending to selected firms.
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Chief Executive Officer Richard Allison said he did not know how long competitors delivering through Uber Eats, Postmates or GrubHub could maintain subsidised pricing, making it impossible to predict sales over the next five years.
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Sanders is also the only candidate to voice support for the FCC's decision in March to extend the decade-old Lifeline program to include subsidised broadband internet for low-income households that can't afford it.
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The wind industry has seen a steep decline in prices and increased competition as governments move away from guaranteeing generous fixed, subsidised tariffs for power towards a competitive auction-based system that favours the lowest bidders.
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Under existing regulations, renewable energy gets priority access to electricity networks, which means wind and solar producers are guaranteed being able to sell their power at fixed, usually subsidised prices, even when power demand is low.
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In April Handelsblatt, a German newspaper, revealed that 27 out of 28 EU ambassadors in Beijing had signed a report calling the BRI a challenge to free-trade rules and a boon to subsidised Chinese companies.
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BEIRUT, Oct 23 (Reuters) - A Lebanese public prosecutor has brought charges against former prime minister Najib Mikati and Bank Audi for making illegitimate gains by obtaining subsidised housing loans, the state news agency reported on Wednesday.
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While Tesla has carved itself a successful premium niche, electric vehicles have yet to penetrate volume markets, with the heavily subsidised exception of Norway, and still account for less than 1 percent of global car sales.
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In addition, there is confusion about which sectors get which gas at what price, with domestic gas subsidised and cheaper than imported LNG, although the lack of clarity may not be a stumbling block, Shah said.
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In 2013, then central bank governor Raghuram Rajan announced a similar forex deposit swap arrangement at a subsidised market rate to attract dollars and prevent the rupee's free fall during India's worst currency crisis since 1990s.
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This has for years encouraged local traders — who act as middlemen, buying wheat from scores of small-landholding farmers before selling it on to the government — to mix cheaper imported wheat into the subsidised local supplies.
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But with the competitive threat from state-subsidised Chinese airlines and low-cost carriers from elsewhere in Asia rising every month, the two incidents could turn out to be the least of its big problems ahead.
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He has also shied away from raising highly subsidised fares that leave the railways with next to nothing for investment - by some analyst estimates, the railways need 20 trillion rupees ($20.34 billion) of investment by 2020.
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Unlike previous crises in which state-subsidised short work hours helped companies limit wage costs while ensuring they could ramp up production once good times returned, employers are hardly positioning themselves to bring those jobs back.
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Turin's ratings could be downgraded if the operating margin weakens below 10%, associated with a deterioration of the fund balance, and if overall long-term debt, including subsidised loans to pay commercial liabilities, climbs towards EUR3.5bn.
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Domestic carmakers, who once made subsidised hunks of junk, have managed to reduce their defect rate by an order of magnitude since 2003; their market share has jumped from 26% in 2014 to 38% in 2018.
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Some non-governmental groups and those working in the industry have sought to disrupt the scheme, which they say has illegally subsidised fossil fuels and made insufficient allowance for more innovative ways of supporting the power grid.
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Prime Minister Georgy Kvirikashvili said the government was planning measures including fixing the exchange rate for individuals repaying mortgages in dollars 20 points lower than the market rate, with the difference to be subsidised by the government.
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These include privatising inefficient state companies (a one-off deficit-slasher), further cutting subsidised lending (which distorts credit markets and monetary policy) and simplifying a regressive tax system that gives 4% of GDP in concessions to businesses.
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Under their "rentier" system, ruling families extract rents from oil and gas exports, and distribute the revenues in the form of easy government jobs (mostly for men) and generous benefits, not least subsidised fuel, electricity and water.
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For those who earn too much for Medicaid but whose employers do not provide insurance, America has Obamacare: a heavily regulated, government-subsidised system of private insurance exchanges with an individual mandate, like the Netherlands and Switzerland.
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Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the World Bank have poured about $3 billion into Egypt's coffers in recent months, but rising prices and periodic shortages of state-subsidised foods have forced the government to increase costly imports.
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The North African country is a leading gas supplier to Europe, but exports have suffered from delays to several projects and a steep rise in the use of subsidised gas at home as the population has grown.
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However, maximum income criteria for subsidised housing means many middle class families who aren't eligible for such accommodation are forced to turn to lower-end private flats, some of which are the size of car parking spaces.
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The European Commission announced plans on March 16 to speed up trade defence cases against cheap imports from China and urged EU member states to end measures that could block higher duties on dumped and subsidised products.
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It also pushed its nearly decade-old group-buying and flash-sale service Juhuasuan to a more prominent position in its e-commerce ecosystem, where it will offer heavily subsidised selling campaigns, discounts, coupons and other perks.
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The Society for Community Organization (SoCo), a non-profit that has upgraded and let about 26 units at subsidised rates as part of a government plan to have social enterprises and non-profits create more transitional housing.
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A Damascus resident said each neighborhood only gets water for about two hours a day and bottled water prices had increased dramatically on the open market to more than double the cost at state-subsidised grocery stores.
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The group is looking for partners for its Steel Europe division as well as buyers for its plant building activities, two loss-making activities that will no longer have the benefit from being cross-subsidised by elevator.
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The group is looking for partners for its Steel Europe division as well as buyers for its plant building activities, two loss-making activities that will no longer have the benefit from being cross-subsidised by elevator.
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The data will likely draw international scrutiny after U.S. President Donald Trump this month slapped hefty import duties on steel, aimed at dissuading China from exporting its excess metal at what he says are state subsidised prices.
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JAKARTA, Dec 27 (Reuters) - The Indonesian government is reconsidering a plan to allow state electricity utility Perusahaan Listrik Negara to return to using adjustable tariffs for non-subsidised customers next year, its energy minister said on Friday.
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Instead Fiat Chrysler, which has 58,000 workers in Italy, is using state-subsidised furloughs and solidarity contracts to cut costs and avoid the high political and social price to the company's controlling Agnelli family of shutting a factory.
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Robert Peel destroyed his career and split his party in order to do the right thing—abolish the Corn Laws that subsidised the agricultural interests (the backbone of the old Tory Party) at the expense of everybody else.
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But to ensure its ultimate survival, the industry needs more infrastructure projects that use British steel, lower energy costs and crucially, more measures to prevent dumped or subsidised steel from the likes of China from entering the country.
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The law requires centres to post a sign with a phone number where women can access free or subsidised family planning services—and, for unlicensed facilities lacking medical personnel, to tack up a second sign noting that fact.
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The Housing Society, a non-profit group and a major public housing provider, last week received a record 94,000 applications for the sale of 620 subsidised flats, priced at a discount of 30 percent to the market rate.
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STABLE PRICES The wind industry has seen a steep decline in prices and increased competition as governments move away from guaranteeing generous fixed, subsidised tariffs for power towards a competitive auction-based system that favours the lowest bidders.
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The central bank has been printing Sudanese pounds equivalent to $200 million a month to buy and export gold to finance subsidised commodities, mainly fuel and wheat, the finance ministry said in a 2020 budget statement last week.
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The idea behind Zhongguancun IC Park (the IC stands for integrated circuit), according to Wu Chunyan, one of the park's sales team, is that it will smooth the way for new chip companies, and not just through subsidised rents.
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Fitch expects the regional stock of debt, including subsidised loans, to rise towards EUR1.6 billion by 0003, or around a moderate 25% of revenue (21% in 2016), since new debt will exceed principal repayment to finance investments and liabilities.
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Governments were scrapping over how to respond to state-subsidised Chinese steel, and Britain, among the club's weightiest pro-trade voices, had voted to leave the EU, a decision made flesh by the government's Article 50 letter this week.
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Its owners have subsidised the growth of the sport in America for years on the understanding they were buying into a protected club; were they suddenly to face the risk of relegation, those investments would likely come to naught.
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Duterte's economic managers have taken turns to defend TRAIN, insisting that while it may have contributed to inflation, a jump in world oil prices, a weak peso currency and a shortage in state-subsidised rice were the main culprits.
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Article XXI of the WTO treaty allows a member to raise any tariffs "it considers necessary for the protection of its essential security interests" even if there is no evidence that imports are surging, subsidised or sold below cost.
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The WTOs appeals body last year said the EU had failed to remove subsidised government development loans for the worlds largest airliner, the A380, and Europes newest long-haul jet, the A350, causing losses for Boeing and U.S. workers.
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The dirty secret that fintech startups are exposing is that financial services are never free, of course, but subsidised by things like hidden fees, zero interest paid when you are in credit or via up sold and uncompetitive products.
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The OPEC member has already cut spending, approved higher prices for some subsidised products and set import restrictions in an effort to ward off the financial impact of lower oil prices and try to improve its poor domestic production.
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The move is a response to a more competitive industry that is moving away from governments guaranteeing utilities generous fixed subsidised tariffs for power towards an auction-based system that favours those who can bid at the lowest price.
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The Baken Park housing project is part of a Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) introduced by the ANC in 13 to alleviate poverty and inequality, including by providing subsidised houses to families earning less than 3,500 rand per month.
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They said they were confident the ruling would be overturned on appeal and insisted the tax breaks were dwarfed by $22 billion in subsidised loans by European governments to Airbus, adding these could spark U.S. retaliation within a year.
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GENEVA, March 11 (Reuters) - South Korea won a partial victory against the United States in a World Trade Organization ruling published on Friday, having challenged U.S. duties imposed on imported washing machines deemed to be subsidised and unfairly priced.
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Over the weekend, Vestager approved 3 billion euros ($3.2 billion) of state aid for Portugal's tourism, travel and restaurant industries, three French measures providing more than 300 billion euros of liquidity to companies and two German subsidised loan schemes.
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"The Commission's preliminary conclusions are that the Argentinian imports of the product concerned into the Union are subsidised and that there appears to be a threat of material injury to the Union industry," the Commission said in the document.
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"A subsidised interest rate is charged on the loans and repayments are uncertain because they are income contingent, so the government does not expect the outstanding balances to be repaid in full," the UK government said in a statement.
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And whereas OECD countries charged consumers roughly 8% of farm income by artificially raising food prices, India instead paid consumers the equivalent of 25% of farm incomes, not only by depressing crop prices but by distributing lots of subsidised food.
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At the same time, she threw up protective trade barriers, ran large unfinanced fiscal deficits (despite enacting big tax increases) in the midst of a commodity windfall and subsidised energy and transport tariffs to the tune of 4% of GDP.
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Lots of countries show off their public-housing projects, but few are quite as devoted to them as Singapore, where four-fifths of the permanent population live in subsidised units built by the government, most of them as owner-occupiers.
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The arrival of Reliance Jio, a carrier backed by oil and gas giant Reliance Industries, has shaken up the sector in the past month, as it injects more than $222 billion to offer customers free data, calls and subsidised smartphones.
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High Debt, Weak Liquidity Piemonte's stock of debt has materially increased over time as the region accelerated the draw-down of subsidised and treasury loans, reducing the share of capital market debt to less than 50% of total direct debt.
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Though there is much flab to cut, that is still a perilous undertaking which means dismantling the system according to which petro-cash, not taxes, pay for free education and health care as well as highly subsidised electricity, water and housing.
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Insurance companies will then be able to pass on flood risk through the purchase of subsidised reinsurance from Flood Re. The scheme is intended as a transitory measure and will be gradually phased out with an expiration date of 2039.
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Many have left their children behind because of the difficulty of getting them into urban schools: the country's system of hukou, or household registration, makes it hard for migrant children to enjoy subsidised education in places other than their parents' birthplace.
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THE people of Saudi Arabia have for decades enjoyed the munificence of their royal family: no taxes; free education and health care; subsidised water, electricity and fuel; undemanding jobs in the civil service; scholarships to study abroad; and much more.
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With E.ON set to sell its stake in thermal generation unit Uniper to Finland's Fortum this year, E.ON and RWE will be left with the only assets that still make money in Europe's power industry: subsidised renewables and regulated networks.
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Because of a glitch in the text of the ACA, the working poor in states that did not expand Medicaid made too much to qualify for the programme but too little to purchase subsidised policies on state health-insurance exchanges.
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The government aims to increase the number of passengers travelling on domestic flights to 863 million by 286 from 21 million in 267.8500, and has introduced a scheme with subsidised fares to get people from smaller cities to start flying.
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The B10 biodiesel programme will be implemented in the transport sector and other subsidised sectors in stages and will be mandatory from February 2019, Bloomberg News said on Thursday citing a letter from the Primary Industries Ministry to petroleum companies.
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Ziraat is the largest domestic bank, with market shares of 211%-21500% in sector assets and deposits at end-21000H212000, and a policy role as the sole provider of subsidised agricultural loans in Turkey (end-4807123H212001: around 15% of gross loans).
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Wheat in Syria is used in the production of flat bread, a subsidised staple for a population that has suffered under a conflict estimated to have killed several hundred thousand people and forced millions to flee their homes since 2011.
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PARIS, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The European Commission has decided not to reinstate provisional import tariffs on Argentine biodiesel for now, although it considers the imports are subsidised and a threat to the European Union's industry, a document seen by Reuters showed.
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After finally ceasing over a hundred years worth of subsidised tobacco monocropping in North Carolina and switching to produce, farmers in the southern Appalachian region could provide local communities with almost 40 percent of their yearly fruit and vegetable needs.
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Wheat in Syria is used in the production of flat bread, a subsidised staple for a population that has suffered under a conflict estimated to have killed several hundred thousand people and forced millions to flee their homes since 2011.
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"On the basis of the conclusions reached by the Commission...a definitive countervailing duty should be imposed to prevent the materialisation of the imminent threat of material injury caused to the Union industry by the subsidised imports," the Commission said in its proposal.
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On March 15th, David Davis, the minister in charge of Brexit, told a parliamentary committee that it was "probably right" that once Britain leaves the EU British travellers would lose access to free or subsidised health care within the European Economic Area (EEA).
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Huawei, whose worldwide revenues exceeded 720bn yuan ($102bn) in 2018, stands accused by Trump administration officials and members of Congress of being variously owned, subsidised or at least controlled by the Chinese state, with notably close links to the army and intelligence services.
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As I've previously noted, the dirty secret that fintech startups are exposing is that financial services are never free, of course, but subsidised by things like hidden fees, zero interest paid when you are in credit or via up sold and uncompetitive products.
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American representatives claimed that the UAE had admitted that it had unfairly subsidised its flag carriers and had agreed not to add further so-called fifth-freedom flights, which are routes to the United States that do not originate in the UAE.
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Indeed, it continued to allocate much of the water stored in the dams to farmers at subsidised prices—almost 40% in 2015 and 25% this year—instead of to the city, even though agriculture makes up just 4% of the province's economy.
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History has repeatedly shown that a reliable way to fuel nationalistic, insular, populist politics is to ignore the downsides of disruptive economic change Subsidised jobs, however, often pay too little for middle-age workers to support their families, even assuming a working spouse.
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On heavily subsidised buses, men wrapped in blankets struggle to catnap without falling over onto their neighbours, their dreams constantly disturbed, if not by the green and red light bulbs inside the bus, then by the headlights flaring in from the highway.
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Chinese leaders are dancing around the obvious solutions—stopping the flow of cheap credit and subsidised water and energy to state firms; making them pay proper dividends rather than using any spare cash to expand further; and, above all, closing down unviable firms.
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Its thrifty stores helped it secure a South African market share of 32.8 percent in June, a company record, Chief Executive Whitey Basson said, as the chain kept costs tight and subsidised certain basic foodstuffs to keep the business of cash-strapped consumers.
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That may have helped win over the Greens, but it is unlikely to generate enthusiasm for building new plants, not least because renewables will continue to be subsidised and the bigger their role in the energy mix, the more they suppress wholesale prices.
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Zhongji was among the Chinese foil companies that unsuccessfully filed a joint "no injury" claim with the U.S. International Trade Commission last year as Washington probed whether the companies were unfairly subsidised, and is now trying to reverse the duties on its own.
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The food ministry had favoured raising the supply of subsidised rice and wheat to 7 kg a month from the current 5 kg for most beneficiaries — a proposal that would have cost the government an extra 3 billion rupees ($40.4 million), they said.
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The long-term movement shows more people now live in their own homes (22007%) than in the past, and people reliant on social housing (subsidised or government-run) are down to a low of just 21990%, a level not seen since 3.53.
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However, there could be room for policy easing as soon as next year, he said, as the central bank plans to make the refinancing rate more relevant by introducing open market operations and scrapping the policy of providing subsidised loans at lower rates.
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PSE said unregulated power imports "can destabilise the system" at night, when demand is low and government officials said it was a necessary step to protect its coal power plants, a source of 80 percent of electricity, from imports of "cheap, subsidised electricity".
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KEY RATING DRIVERS - KAF KAF's 'BB+' Long-Term IDRs are based on Fitch's view of the moderate probability of state support to the company given its policy role in provision of state-subsidised financial leasing and project financing to the agricultural sector.
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So the public has responded enthusiastically to a campaign this year to use $1.3bn, part of a windfall from the drop in the price of oil (of which India imports 81% of its needs), to provide it with cleaner-burning subsidised liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).
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BEIJING, April 12 (Reuters) - China will give priority to the construction of wind and solar projects that can operate without subsidies this year, and will cap new subsidised capacity, the energy regulator said on Friday, part of efforts to ease a subsidy payment backlog.
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CETA has other more traditional detractors who hate the fact that it also hacks away at 99% of customs duties between Canada and the EU. Wallonia boasts one cow for every three humans and its lavishly subsidised farmers are wary of cheap Canadian competition.
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In France, the ubiquitous, subsidised écoles maternelles, which take children from the age of two, have long been the envy of working mothers elsewhere in Europe; and Germany has recently increased the number of child-care places for younger children, though provision is patchy.
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In a blow to Europe's long-held argument that the most recent Airbus jet, the A350, fell outside the case, the WTO said funding for the jet had been subsidised but rejected U.S. claims that it fell into the most serious category of "prohibited" aid.
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Acquisitions of subsidised subway rail services and bus transport operations in major cities would require political support but could offset risks from rising exposure to competition as regions, which account for EUR0003bn or nearly a quarter of FS's income, may tender out their transport services.
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Evaluations of universal pre-schooling in Quebec, where the government introduced highly subsidised early-childhood education for all in 1997, find that shifting children from private nurseries or lavish care at home into public facilities actually reduced children's scores on measures of social development.
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Critics argue that tuition fees exacerbate inequality between generations (rich oldsters attended university free, after all), but the alternative would be greater inequality within generations—as poorer students were once again frozen out when capacity fell, and relatively wealthy graduates were subsidised from general taxation.
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State-owned PT Bank Tabungan Negara (Persero) Tbk (BTN, AA(idn)/Stable), which applied the lower risk-weighting to its mortgage loans, will be most affected by the end of the relaxed regulation as around 13% of its loan portfolio consists of subsidised mortgages.
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GENEVA, March 28 (Reuters) - The World Trade Organization said on Thursday the United States had ignored a request to withdraw subsidised tax breaks to Boeing in its main planemaking state of Washington as a 15-year-old transatlantic trade row edges towards tit-for-tat sanctions.
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"A sustainable fall in the surcharge can only be expected for the early 2020s when the EEG payments to the first generation of extremely highly subsidised installations of the early 2000s expire," said Manuel Koehler, managing director of the German branch of Britain's Aurora Energy Research.
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The newly listed cases involve a man arrested after lambasting public officials at a city council meeting; a ban on political apparel at polling places in Minnesota; and a California law requiring pro-life pregnancy centres to alert visitors of state-subsidised family planning and abortions.
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Since being launched last year, Open Fiber (OF), the broadband unit owned by Enel and state lender CDP, has more than doubled its planned investments to 6.5 billion euros ($7.4 billion), added more cities to its rollout and also included rural areas under a state-subsidised scheme.
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This has had "very effective levers" in "the education system, the public and subsidised private media, and the gradual acceptance of the disappearance of the symbols of the state and of Spain in Catalonia", Josep Piqué, a Catalan former PP minister, told El País, a Madrid newspaper.
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Debt: In its central scenario, Fitch estimates Naples' stock of debt at EUR2.6bn for 2015-183 (or 210% of operating revenue), including EUR1.3bn of subsidised borrowing in 2013-2015 from the national government via Cassa Depositi and Prestiti (CDP; BBB+/Stable) to pay down commercial liabilities.
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China accounts for some 60 percent of Vietnam's steel exports and more than a fifth of global steel exports, but with a persistent glut in steel, as well as in aluminium, there is little need for what Western producers say are subsidised Chinese exports of the metal.
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At federal level, pre-school is still perceived as more of a Democratic issue, while Republicans are more likely to support subsidised child care and home visits, says Libby Doggett, who served as the deputy assistant secretary for early learning at the Department of Education under Barack Obama.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS High Debt: Turin's stock of debt remained at EUR3.4bn at end-2015, or around 270% of operating revenue, as calculated by Fitch, which included accumulated state-subsidised EUR500m borrowings from Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP: BBB+/Stable) in 2013-2015 to pay down commercial liabilities.
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The new regulations immediately raised concerns that the controls will create a black market for maize, which will lead to shortages, and that the grain agency will likely sell at subsidised prices at a time when the government has said it wants to remove subsidies in the economy.
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And, despite strong population growth and rapid price increases, Britain is building around half as many houses as in the 1970s, and the supply of subsidised (or social) housing has pretty much dried up, making it difficult for many British workers to move to where the jobs are.
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As part of reforms aimed at clinching a $113 billion IMF loan needed to plug its gaping budget deficit, the government is also expected to cut petrol subsidies and devalue the Egyptian pound, prompting a further cycle of inflation in Egypt, where tens of millions rely on state-subsidised bread.
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Next, the government said it would give full urban status to 2100m migrants, meaning they would get access to subsidised urban health care and education (typically, these services are available only in the place of one's household registration, or hukou—usually the place of birth of one's mother or father).
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But Concorde, although a technological marvel for its time, was never a commercial success: the 14 aircraft that saw service were heavily subsidised by British and French taxpayers; they had limited range and guzzled fuel flying subsonically, which they were largely forced to do over land because of their sonic booms.
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Moderate Market Debt Fitch expects Naples' direct risk to stabilise at around EUR2.5bn in 2016-2018 (EUR2.6bn at end-2015), or about 210% of budget when EUR1.1bn subsidised loans from Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP, BBB+/Negative, the national government financial arm) to pay down the city's commercial liabilities are included.
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Asset quality at the three banks is reasonable and is underpinned by low non-performing loan (NPL) ratios in subsidised agricultural and SME lending (at Ziraat and Halk); loans to payroll customers and pensioners, which account for a large proportion of the three banks' unsecured consumer loan portfolios; and mortgage lending.
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High Direct Risk: Fitch expects Naples' direct risk to stabilise at around EUR2.4 billion in 2017-2019 net of pre-financing, or about 200% of budget when EUR1.1 billion subsidised loans from Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP, BBB/Stable, the national government financial arm) to pay down the city's commercial liabilities are included.
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The finance ministry also shelved other proposal by the food ministry that would have raised the supply of highly subsidised rice and wheat to millions of people under the world's biggest food welfare programme, said the sources, who did not wish to be identified as they are not authorised to talk to media.
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India wants the share of non-fossil fuel in total installed power capacity to jump to 40 percent by 2030 from 30 percent currently, but there are challenges including weak finances of state distribution companies forced to sell subsidised power, difficulties hooking up solar projects to grids, and access to affordable capital.
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" The travel and aviation blogger Gary Leff has consistently made the opposite case, arguing that America's airlines are so deeply subsidised by, and intertwined with, the government that their complaint is hypocritical, and that "the push for government action against Etihad, Emirates, and Qatar is pure self-interest at the expense of US consumers.
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Households using solar power in this way cut their consumption of unsubsidised kerosene by a fifth—though, because a limited supply of kerosene is subsidised by the government in this part of Uttar Pradesh, the actual sum saved amounted to about 48 rupees per month, only half of the cost of the (unsubsidised) grid connection.
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But the group's calls for a partial rollback of the flexible exchange rate system, a looser monetary policy and subsidised corporate loans call into question the key policies of the Central Bank, whose governor Elvira Nabiullina has earned Mr Putin's trust by helping the country weather the storm of oil price shock and western sanctions.
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Their existing app stores offer developers an easy way to sell software, and their business model—in which the cost of the hardware is often subsidised by network operators, who recoup this investment with fees and rental charges as they go along—could help draw some of the financial sting of the initial outlay a customer must make.
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What Mr Orban calls "the Fidesz community" and his opponents term "the Fidesz mafia" is held together by a mixture of blind loyalty, the personality cult which Mr Orban has built around himself, and not least by the economic prosperity and low taxes that many Hungarians have experienced under him (heavily subsidised by the European Union).
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Rivals in Europe have complained vociferously about their tactics in the European market, claiming that they exploit a state subsidised model to steal long-haul market share, while US airlines have run a concerted campaign against allegedly unfair competition because of subsidies, asking their government to tear up its aviation agreements with Qatar and the UAE.
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It has taken a first step in Liberia, where Bridge is part of a pilot programme in which private operators take over the running of 90 public schools—an approach similar to that involving charter schools in America, where independent operators such as KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Programme) have run partly subsidised, fee-free schools for more than two decades.
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Downloads grew 2270 percent over the past two years in the country, compared with 275 percent growth in China, and negative 260 percent growth in the U.S. [gallery ids="280,235"] App Annie notes that app usage in India was driver by the introduction of subsidised, unlimited 1103G access by Jio in September 2110, which has allowed users to come online in large numbers.
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In one or more of India's 29 states, it had been mooted as a requirement for access to subsidised grain, cooking gas, free school lunches, welfare payments, government pensions, public health care, fertiliser subsidies, scholarships, fellowships and rehabilitation from sex trafficking; to get a birth or death certificate, buy railway tickets, move large sums of money, file taxes, or buy and sell property.
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"The practice of 'Birth Tourism' can be very costly to taxpayers since it is used to ensure that after the child reaches 18 years of age Canada's education system can be used at a publicly subsidised cost ... thus taking advantage of Canada's public health system and social security programmes," states the petition, authored by Kerry Starchuk, who's also been railing against Chinese-only signs in the area.
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