Example collocations logo

Subsidies in sentence

1415 examples of Subsidies in a sentence

The second option is to pay wage subsidies instead of wage replacement incomes to allow for the wage dispersion necessary for full employment without letting the incomes of the unskilled fall.
Finally, many countries offer subsidies on water, not to mention gasoline and food, in an effort to “buy” social peace.
But such subsidies encourage profligate practices, accelerating water-resource depletion and environmental degradation.
Governments respond with increased subsidies on water and other resources, deepening the environmental challenges that exacerbate scarcity and lead to unrest.
While subsidies need not be eliminated completely, they should be targeted at smaller-scale farmers or other high-need workers and redesigned so that they, too, provide incentives for water conservation and efficiency.
The primary goal of the program – initiated in 2009 by the previous Congress party-led government – was originally to manage government benefits and eliminate “ghost beneficiaries” of public subsidies, thereby preventing the pilfering of state funds.
Rather than acknowledge that high fuel prices are the best way to inspire energy conservation and innovation, the Bush administration has instituted huge subsidies to American farmers to grow grains for bio-fuel production.
Further concessions by Bouteflika’s party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), which has ruled Algeria since independence in 1962, included decreasing oil and sugar prices, pumping billions of dinars into the ailing economy in order to sustain rises in salaries, subsidies, and other income assistance to the population.
From the right, the stress is on the hazards of crony capitalism, owing to the massive implicit government subsidies that these banks receive.
“Break up Citigroup, end dangerous government subsidies, and bring back the market.”
With a private owner, huge public subsidies would have been politically unacceptable.
All subsidies should be transparent, and public/private bad banks are not.
The problems of overcoming vested interests, of frustrating rent seeking, apply to almost every attempt to change government policy, whether the change involves telecoms privatization or reducing farm subsidies.
But such reforms take time: German Chancellor Angela Merkel appears to have forgotten that it took more than a decade and roughly €2 trillion ($2.5 trillion) in subsidies for structural reforms to make the former East Germany competitive with the rest of the country.
Most important, while state subsidies in all other sectors are forbidden, they are commonly accepted in banking – not only explicit subsidies, such as Germany’s bailout of several Landesbanks after the American subprime-mortgage crisis, but implicit subsidies as well.
This implicit subsidy not only costs each country’s taxpayers billions of euros; it also distorts competition, because not all implicit subsidies are created equal.
One way to ensure the necessary R&D is to rely on the market to finance and direct the work by using taxes, subsidies, rationing, and – most important – by convincing firms and consumers that fossil fuels will become progressively more costly.
The World Bank went around the world encouraging or requiring governments to cut subsidies for universities and expand those for primary schooling.
For example, the government agency Uruguay XXI’s “finishing schools” initiative offers subsidies to export-oriented companies to train staff in specific skills, such as English, and help them to master new technologies.
After all, the financial system did not collapse altogether, and the Obama administration made a conscious decision to revive banks with hidden subsidies rather than to recapitalize them on a compulsory basis.
While the people inside have often worried that newcomers would take away their jobs and subsidies, they usually acquiesced in the end.
For example, America’s huge agriculture subsidies contribute to its fiscal deficit, which translates into a larger trade deficit.
But agricultural subsidies have consequences for China and other developing countries.
Were China to revalue its currency, its farmers would be worse off; but in a world of free(r) trade, US farm subsidies translate into lower global agricultural prices, and thus lower prices for Chinese farmers.
During the campaign, Trump pledged to ensure energy self-sufficiency – an effort that would probably entail new subsidies for domestic oil, gas, and possibly coal production.
Much of the rice grown in Pakistan, Vietnam, and especially America is stimulated by subsidies, and then dumped into African markets at low prices – sometimes below the cost of production.
The assumption was that rich countries would reciprocate by curtailing subsidies to their farmers.
The big exporters, such as the US and Vietnam, continue to supply massive subsidies to their rice farmers.
With the US and the European Union unwilling to slash their farm subsidies, Uganda’s rice experiment deserves wider attention, if only because it shows that Africans aren’t merely passive victims of international economic forces.
Under this system, fewer students who intend to work permanently overseas will accept government subsidies, and more money will be available for students who wish to practice in their country of origin, or for investments in health-care infrastructure.
BackNext