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Ratio of subventions to annual total expenditure

Although increasingly strapped for cash, governments offer the solace of public subsidy.

11.2.1 Entitlement to family benefits

Those subsidies don't exist in Haiti.

Benefits should be expanded and extended for a limited, discretionary period.

With higher revenues and lower payouts, the budget deficit diminishes.

Trade distorting subsidies need to be phased out.

In 2001 the average amount of sickness benefit was LVL 81.74.

Countries, like the US, with food stamp programs clearly need to increase the value of these subsidies in order to ensure that nutrition standards do not deteriorate.

All trade distorting farm subsidies would be slashed by 70 80 in the major subsidizing countries.

Benefit levels have been increased consistently during the period covered by this report.

(g) Perverse subsidies and their impact on deforestation and forest degradation

(a) The importance of subsidies in mobilizing private finance for water.

Such subsidies are a global scandal, yet large payments to largely wealthy American and Greek cotton growers seem likely to persist for many years.

Of course, the European Union s subsidies are far larger, but, in contrast to the US, Europe has made some effort to reduce them, especially export subsidies.

In 2002, for example, the income thresholds for the Premium Subsidy program were increased, which made it easier for individuals and families to qualify for premium subsidy.

Family benefits are administered by the State Social Insurance Agency.

Municipal social benefits are based on the assessment of the situation and incomes of a specific person.

growth in corporate welfare, from bank bailouts to ethanol subsidies to a continuation of agricultural subsidies, even when those subsidies have been ruled illegal by the World Trade Organization.

Experts observed that steel subsidies served to maintain high cost capacity that would otherwise be eliminated through the process of international competition.

The US and Europe offered only a token reduction, scotching a deal.

The economy did not stagger under the weight of ample benefits or high taxes.

Bill Clinton continued those cuts in the 1990 s.

With respect to world trade, agricultural subsidies are also important.

Financial assistance Financial assistance includes the state social benefit system and municipal social assistance benefits.

Under Decree No. 65 116 of 18 August 1965, establishing regulations for the family benefits system of the National Social Security Fund, the following family benefits are provided prenatal allowance, maternity allowance workers' household allowances family allowance maternity leave for women wage earners at all levels reimbursement of delivery expenses of women wage earners.

Measures can be grouped according to the intended beneficiaries (i) support measures whose intended beneficiaries are households or consumers (ii) those whose intended beneficiaries are service suppliers and (iii) those intended to benefit society as a whole.

The WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (ASCM), permits generic subsidies (available to all industries) and prohibits export subsidies and subsidies contingent on the use of domestic merchandise that are granted to specific sectors.

By the 1990 s, the major subsidies and policies were abolished, and the industry was deregulated.

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.

In the EU, 54 billion of subsidies are paid every year.

Under the Republic of Tajikistan law on State social insurance, the following family benefits are assigned and paid when a child is born into a family

Article 16 of the same Decree stipulates that family benefits shall be paid to the mother.

A key adjustment has been the removal of subsidies to urban consumers.

A possible approach to eliminate subsidies could be to calculate the gap between domestic and international prices as in estimating producer support in agriculture and use that as a basis for reductions of subsidies.

Many of these subsidies could fall into the actionable category, depending on their exact characteristics, which would have to be analysed on the basis of the framework in the WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures.

Take away subsidies and cotton prices will rise, perhaps as much as 15 .

Another way to reward consumers for combating tax evasion is to offer subsidies.

The higher the wage cost, the lower the subsidy, until it has tapered off to zero.

Rich countries will be asked to reduce subsidies poor countries to open up their markets.