Plus we're subsidising it and we don't have to subsidise it.
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Many do not realise that the state is subsidising the bill.
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If Swiggy and others stop subsidising their customers, they may stop buying.
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They worry that fiscally prudent countries would end up subsidising profligate ones.
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Moreover, subsidising mortgages might actually hurt economies by helping inflate housing bubbles.
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"It's crystal clear that China is subsidising their steel industry," says Mr Irwin.
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Rather than subsidising quackery, he would do China more good by championing science.
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"British taxpayers are subsidising European train fares," roars the left-wing Daily Mirror.
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Subsidising some deliveries was more defensible when postmen carried armfuls of essential letters.
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China, it should be stressed, is not alone in subsidising at-risk smelters.
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The main tool in this transition is a policy of subsidising renewable power.
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Most goes on subsidising farmers, improving poorer regions and promoting cooperation across the bloc.
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The Indian government has been subsidising lavatories in remote villages for over three decades.
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At first pass, the economic argument for subsidising child care is a bit iffy.
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Firms ceased subsidising unprofitable sales and concentrated on limiting their losses, which dented overall sales.
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Bashir's government had run up enormous budget deficits by subsidising fuel, bread and other products.
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The state has no business subsidising home buyers, let alone standing behind most mortgage lending.
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The state will also contribute to help borrowers, subsidising part of their monthly loan repayments.
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As Mr Morales says, he advised Chávez that "you can't carry on subsidising so much".
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The administration removed gasoline subsidies at the start of 2015, but kept subsidising diesel fuel.
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The first will be difficult if cash-rich rival Apple keeps subsidising its music offering.
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And subsidising only instate tuition creates a pointless incentive for students to avoid venturing further afield.
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To shore up the battered tourism industry, the government tried subsidising hotel rooms and plane tickets.
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He has indicated that he will stop subsidising fuel and selling it at below-market prices.
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Mongolia began subsidising mortgages in 2013 allowing homes to be bought at a rate of 8 percent.
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External pressure has not stopped his IT companies from prospering and subsidising Frutomania, his fruit-juice brand.
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For much of the middle class, "Orbanomics" is working—so long as Europe keeps on subsidising it.
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These include subsidising of industry, limits on access for foreign companies and alleged theft of intellectual property.
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"It's unconscionable to me that our taxpayers should...be subsidising the Chinese growth model," said a Republican.
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In addition to subsidising insurance for key crops, it also offers subsidies for insuring livestock and aquaculture production.
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Subsidising such things probably has a lower economic pay-off than encouraging women to work and improving infrastructure.
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They're niche and unpopular, so the logic goes, and subsidising them only benefits a particular echelon of society.
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He called on China to stop subsidising industries that it deems strategic, from renewable energy to electric vehicles.
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The Energiewende (energy transition) policy focused on subsidising renewables without paying enough attention to phasing out fossil fuels.
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Northern Europeans have been suspicious of the ECB's bond-buying, seeing it as cover for subsidising southern Europe.
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Whatever the explanation, inactive customers who are insensitive to prices end up subsidising those who are more savvy.
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The Venezuelan government spends like Father Christmas after too much eggnog, subsidising everything from rural homes to rice.
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Canada filed the complaint in 2016, saying Washington was wrong to penalise Canada for subsidising its paper industry.
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Subsidising sports stadiums increased with the Tax Reform Act of 2450, says Ted Gayer of Brookings, a think-tank.
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In effect, standard variable rate customers are cross-subsidising cheaper tariffs for customers on fixed-price fixed-term contracts.
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It might, for example, remind Danes who moan about subsidising their Arctic cousins not to take them for granted.
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The Tripoli government has stopped subsidising food and bread, which used to be cheaper than drinking water in Libya.
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To brandish a stick at China, the previous American administration sued it at the WTO for subsidising export industries.
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Before it is too late, Beijing should stop subsidising a vile dynasty that gives nothing but headaches in return.
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Could you then justify why American taxpayers should be subsidising the defence costs of European and Middle Eastern allies.
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Governments could be forced into acting more quickly, taxing polluters and subsidising greener technologies, causing oil prices to plunge.
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Most of these areas are also contested by speculative upstarts that are losing billions of dollars a year subsidising customers.
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The federal government forgoes twice as much revenue because of the mortgage-interest deduction as it spends on subsidising rent.
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Financial Services Consumer finance is an integral part of the group's retail offering, fostering customer loyalty and subsidising store sales.
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The Swiss initiative does not look likely to pass, both because of its expense and the fear of subsidising layabouts.
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Why should European governments play by the rules—not subsidising domestic firms, for example—if their rivals are flouting them?
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Critics say subsidising fossil fuels is costly, regressive and environmentally damaging, but it is popular, so many countries do it.
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State finances are strained by a bloated public sector, debt-servicing costs and subsidising the loss making state-power producer.
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The government says charge points will exist every 50km on main roads, and is subsidising firms that build and run them.
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Populist policies, such as sticking it to Mr Bezos, subsidising rent and giving more power to workers, are in the ascendant.
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"Algeria spends $15 billion annually in oil subsidies combined with another $15 billion in subsidising food and health services," he said.
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Much goes on subsidising public services, whether riding in high-speed trains or studying at university, that cost users more elsewhere.
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In Janus, unions for schoolteachers and other public workers face a challenge from workers opposed to subsidising their collective bargaining efforts.
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By one reckoning, the government spent over $2100 billion, in nominal terms, between 2100 and 240 subsidising the biggest state firms.
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In effect, governments are subsidising the use of raw materials by failing to charge big energy users for the emissions they cause.
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It spread unchecked during the "special period" of the 1990s, when the Soviet Union stopped subsidising Cuba and farms fell into disuse.
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By subsidising rice farmers, for instance, the government has in effect cheered on the guzzling of groundwater and the torching of stubble.
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The theory behind Uber is that by subsidising rides it sets an economic flywheel in motion that at some point powers itself.
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Given the amount of public money that France pumps into subsidising jobs, the wonder is that it has not dented youth unemployment.
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The scheme has been criticised by some environmental groups and businesses for failing to encourage new gas plants and subsidising polluting diesel generators.
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The government fears that subsidising a reduction in output of over 5 percent may penalise the cattle industry, which is already in crisis.
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Merkel was speaking at energy industry group BDEW's annual congress after her cabinet approved reforms to Germany's law on subsidising renewable energy sources.
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It would undercut the broad economic objective of rebalancing the economy by squeezing households - through higher import costs - and effectively subsidising corporate profits.
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But until countries stop subsidising their plants, or imposing tariffs to artificially raise prices, progress towards ending the steel glut will be slow.
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For some context, this is the typical price of a Coursera subscription, although in the case of this course, Google is subsidising it.
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Specific proposals include granting tax subsidies to increase labour mobility, setting up enterprise zones to lure firms, and subsidising childcare for working parents.
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Given the relatively high cost of junk food, it is unlikely that taxing unhealthy food or subsidising healthy food would change people's eating habits.
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Using its network of "Confucius Institutes", the Chinese government has been subsidising the teaching of TCM in America, Britain and other countries (see article).
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There may be a case for subsidising executive education, but funding it with money for apprenticeships is odd, says Ewart Keep of Oxford University.
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South Korea complained to the WTO in 2014 about the way the United States accused it of unfairly pricing and subsidising its washing machines.
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The switching costs for both passengers and drivers are relatively low, which means new entrants can buy market share by subsidising trips and earnings.
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He called on the United States to stop subsidising the burning of fossil fuels - the main culprit behind global warming - as soon as possible.
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The BBC agreed then to take on subsidising £700m of licence fees for pensioners over 75, which has until now been paid by the government.
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Yet this is not necessarily good: subsidising firms to hire unskilled workers might be desirable if their jobs are under threat from automation and outsourcing.
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While Belgrade has sold a steel plant and a copper mine to Chinese companies, it is still subsidising nine businesses which together employ 238,000 people.
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This would have meant taxing imports and subsidising exports, but in a way that, in theory at least, should not have distorted trade flows (see article).
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At one point it was thought to guzzle $2m a day subsidising shipping and using discounts to lure buyers, though the figure has probably come down.
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Once in, they say, it abused other members' trust, depressing the value of its currency for competitive gain, subsidising its industries and stealing American intellectual property.
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Additionally licensing and disposal of non-core drugs, subsidising some of the investments and restructuring will provide management with flexibility to manage this financial transition period.
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DEBORA SCHNEIDERCommunications manager for clean energyEnvironmental Defence FundNew York * It seems far more likely that the investment problem identified in your article reflects signals about subsidising renewables.
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The Barack Obama administration filed a formal complaint to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in its dying days, accusing China of subsidising "certain producers of primary aluminium".
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Most fuel prices are now in line with their costs, though the government is still subsidising fuel for bakeries and power generation, a petroleum ministry official said.
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All should do much less subsidising and controlling of production, and much more safeguarding of the market to make sure that cronies do not capture the economy.
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For every dollar that Lyft spends in subsidising fares, it costs Uber four times the amount to hold onto customers and drivers, because of its far larger size.
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Twenty-seven European ambassadors to Beijing complained in April that China's Belt and Road Initiative—its massive overseas investment plan—would harm global trade by subsidising Chinese firms.
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But vouchers should be limited to non-selective schools that do not charge top-up fees; otherwise governments will find themselves subsidising the better off and increasing inequality.
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Rather than subsidising students who go on to become bankers or lawyers, he argued that it would be more productive for the government to fund research and development.
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Late last year, the WTO accepted that the EU was engaging in protectionist policies and illegally subsidising Airbus by providing it with billions of dollars of state aid.
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The finance ministry is considering subsidising loans that large retail chains take to build up inventories, Siluanov said in an interview aired by state TV channel Rossiya 24.
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"Subsidising private health care may divert medical professionals away from the public system, reducing its capacity to meet patient needs," Duckett and Nemet wrote in their recent report.
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Politicians have criticised the current system where the less well off, who are more likely to have overdrafts, are subsidising those who can afford to stay in credit.
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Lyft's speedy revenue growth is entirely dependent on its gigantic costs, a good chunk of which are spent subsidising rides to lure customers onto its app, away from competitors.
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The party began on a popular note by subsidising electricity, offering free water supply and promising to usher in inclusionary politics with 'Swarajya' (self-rule) as its ultimate goal.
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First, it does not include international "credits", whereby a country eliminates most but not all emissions and offsets the rest, for instance by subsidising green power in poor countries.
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By subsidising diesel in a bid to woo farmers who rely on it to power water pumps and tractors, successive governments encouraged a massive shift in Indian vehicle markets.
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Local media on Friday reported the government was considering subsidising wages for small- and medium-sized businesses amid fears of widespread job losses that could lead to a recession.
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Speaking at a meeting with his top advisory panel, Abe said the package should focus on subsidising education, child-care costs, and on boosting corporate investments to improve productivity.
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But now, new entrants like Kapten are undercutting it on price—and subsidising rides in a way that Uber, now a publicly traded company, can't afford to do anymore.
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The Commission, which is in charge of making sure that EU governments do not distort market competition by subsidising businesses, said the scheme would run from 2020 to 2022.
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The proposal, due to presented around 21.5 GMT, sets Brussels on a collision course with national governments who have increasingly sought to insure against black-outs by subsidising conventional power.
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During the election campaign Mr Trump promised steep tariffs as high as 45% on Chinese imports, accused China of subsidising its exports through currency manipulation and stealing American trade secrets.
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The state has appointed REC as the sole central agency to implement two nationwide power reform projects aimed at increasing electricity coverage in rural areas and subsidising electricity distribution projects.
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The Italian government plans to cut tax expenditures subsidising environmentally harmful activities by 300% each year starting in 2020, according to a draft emergency decree seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
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Because the power plants use expensive fuel oil and consumer tariffs are low, the state spends $1 billion-1.5 billion a year subsidising the sector, the government said last year.
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According to one negotiator, it is "abusing the system" by subsidising SOEs which in turn rig markets, dump cheap exports abroad and deter foreign firms from winning market share in China.
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Equally families spend more time in hotels, eating overpriced meals and using other services, effectively subsidising business travellers—allowing them to frequent posher hotels and make their per diems go further.
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Partly because the state charges too little for the guarantees it offers, taxpayers are subsidising housing borrowers to the tune of up to $150 billion a year, or 1% of GDP.
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The rises bring most fuel prices into line with their costs, though the government is still subsidising gas cylinders and fuel for bakeries and power generation, a petroleum ministry official said.
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PETCO, headquartered in the ultra-modern Coca-Cola headquarters in downtown Nairobi, will spend $360,000 subsidising the collection of 5,900 tonnes of plastic bottles this year, said PETCO head Joyce Gachugi.
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So they introduced a system of franchises, in which companies could bid for the right to operate specified services, to ensure continuity and allow for the subsidising of loss-making services.
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"(Australia) has very high residential solar penetration, plenty of sunshine, relatively high energy prices and ... governments are not subsidising to the extent they used to," said Panasonic Australia Managing Director Paul Reid.
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However, Reuters notes that the company lost around $3.3 billion last year on revenues of $11.3 billion, as it spent money subsidising its riders and drivers to become more competitive with rivals.
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Britain too could find itself accused of market distortion and unfairly subsidising the steel industry, depending on the terms of any government intervention to persuade private investors to buy the Tata assets.
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There is more corruption and capture when government sees its role as just subsidising, or providing different forms of guarantees and tax cuts—as opposed to investing ambitiously to create new opportunities.
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The bank could in theory make the interest rate on borrowing under the TLS negative, thus paying banks to borrow from it and subsidising lending to ordinary Britons, Mr Wren-Lewis says.
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ROME (Reuters) - The Italian government plans to cut tax expenditures subsidising environmentally harmful activities by 10% each year starting in 2020, according to a draft emergency decree seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
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Sweden, for example, has diverted half its foreign-aid budget to pay for refugees at home; thus the world's poorest are in effect subsidising their more fortunate brethren in Sweden's expensive asylum system.
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In neighbouring Bangladesh, the government worked with village councils to educate people about the importance of better sanitation rather than subsidising the construction of toilets, says Nitya Jacob of WaterAid India, an NGO.
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Yet some of the most prominent Leavers, such as Daniel Hannan and Douglas Carswell, are classical liberals who regard the European Union as a protectionist bloc that is bent on subsidising inefficient industries.
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Uber is trying a similar tack by subsidising drivers to keep fares down, by rapidly expanding into new cities and by launching new services, such as the delivery of food and other items.
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It added to the impression that Uber is simply burning cash, subsidising cheap taxi rides to grab market share, with no real idea of how to turn itself into a sustainable, profitable business.
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LONDON, March 2 (Reuters) - The British government will lift its block on subsidising new onshore wind farms, four years after support was scrapped, according to a report in the Guardian newspaper on Monday.
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He could avail himself of much tougher tariffs by accusing Mexico (or indeed China) of various kinds of cheating: such as subsidising their exports illegally or dumping products on the American markets below cost.
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By subsidising transport, staff training and insurance, and offering generous support for financing, Beijing's efforts to build a textile hub in Xinjiang could counter the tide of textiles investment pouring out of the country.
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Mthuli Ncube told state-owned television ZBC News on Friday that the government would fork out 180 million Zimbabwe dollars a month on the subsidy programme and was considering subsidising other goods as well.
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BEIJING, March 14 (Reuters) - China's transport minister said on Monday that ride-hailing companies like Didi Kuaidi and U.S. firm Uber Technologies Inc subsidising discounts and supplementing driver wages was competitively unfair and not sustainable.
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What does this have in common with Yingluck's policy of subsidising Thai rice farmers, a policy she introduced to win the support of the rural population who helped her to election victory in July 2011?
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We're super anti-subsidising, just because we think that over the long-term it doesn't make sense to get some users paying for other users' transfers or for some routes to pay for other routes.
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The new law may not be all good for all consumers; it is possible that non-roamers will end up subsidising the more expensive needs of roamers, as the networks respond to the lost roaming revenue.
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Some go so far as to suggest that other countries free-ride on their largesse, and that Americans are thus subsidising drug development, a situation which, they say, needs to be fixed by changing trade agreements.
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The government says the gas price increase will help ease a deficit of over $20193 billion at the state-owned natural gas suppliers Sui Northern and Sui Southern, both bleeding cash and subsidising consumers and industries.
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Beijing has heavily promoted agricultural insurance in the past decade to mitigate greater risks to farmers as it begins to take steps to deregulate commodities markets and move away from subsidising farm output and towards supporting incomes.
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In several coal-reliant economies, governments will have to choose between closing plants; subsidising coal generation and power prices or increasing power prices to make coal viable, which will hurt consumers and undermine competitiveness, Carbon Tracker said.
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The U.S. Department of Commerce on Tuesday imposed a 220-percent duty on Bombardier's CSeries jets, whose wings are made at a plant in Belfast, following a complaint by Boeing which accuses Canada of unfairly subsidising Bombardier.
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Le Maire said Europe and the United States needed to jointly tackle the problem of some countries heavily subsidising their producers, which makes it possible to dump their products abroad at prices below the cost of production.
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The government has been subsidising the roll-out of connections of 24 Mbps and above to 4.5 million premises in remote locations, and it requires its suppliers to recycle the funding when take-up is higher than expected.
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Having determined that China is subsidising its aluminium companies, the U.S. Department of Commerce last week made a preliminary decision to slap antidumping duties ranging from 16.56 percent to 80.97 percent on imports of aluninium foil from China.
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"The Steinhoff scandal raises concerns about the lack of oversight regarding exactly what activities the ECB's corporate bond programme is subsidising," said Stanislas Jourdan, who coordinates a campaign calling for the ECB to distribute money to people instead.
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So as an example, when you talk about education for the moment and how we subsidise it, we are largely subsidising sending Americans, in the millions, to a higher education system designed for an era that no longer exists.
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In his antipathy to congressional tax credits for clean energy, Mr Perry wants the FERC, an agency whose main job is to preserve the integrity of wholesale power markets, to distort them further by also subsidising coal and nuclear power.
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Sarwar said the move would help ease part of the 152 billion rupee ($1.24 billion) deficit for state-owned Sui Northern and Sui Southern, the two main suppliers of natural gas that are bleeding cash and subsidising consumers and industries.
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In September, Vattenfall won a tender to build two offshore wind power parks with a combined capacity of 350 megawatts (MW) in Denmark, but still requires the final approval from the government, which has questioned the costs of subsidising the farms.
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And although many hoped that subsidising university for all would encourage more youngsters to apply, that does not seem to have happened: Welsh entry rates this year were 32%, compared with 37% in England, where rich students pay steep fees in order to subsidise the poor ones.
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The year-to-date decline in production has delivered something of a welcome surprise to a market that has long bemoaned Chinese authorities' frustrating habit of subsidising loss-making aluminum smelters while incentivising a flow of excess metal out of the country in the form of semi-manufactured products.
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It is possible that the splurge in borrowing by Indian states goes sufficiently into building roads, warehouses, irrigation infrastructure, schools, drinking water and meal programmes and, yes, even subsidising the consumption of the poor (albeit through loan waivers in the absence of effective agricultural insurance) to have a productive impact on the economy.
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But even before the migrant crisis catalysed European commissioners into debating increased defence collaboration such as a unified pan-European coast guard, a February 2014 report by European civil liberties monitor Statewatch found how hundred of millions of euros from EU research funding had been awarded to drone projects that are subsidising Europe's defence and security industries.
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