The cabinet said it would look at setting up a self-financing concessionary transport scheme.
He has refused to incur further foreign debts except on the most concessionary terms.
The Scotland-wide concessionary travel scheme for bus journeys already uses 7, 000 smart-enabled ticket machines.
Bus companies were discussing proposed cuts to subsidies for concessionary passes at a meeting in County Hall.
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This is cash which could be spent on filling potholes or concessionary bus travel for the elderly.
It has offered to train thousands of Kazakh army officers, and to sell arms at concessionary prices.
The fund would provide capital to small banks on concessionary terms provided they expanded lending to small business.
The council has said it can no longer subsidise concessionary bus fares after a 30% reduction in government grants.
Various Central American, Caribbean and Andean countries can already send ethanol to America tariff-free, thanks to concessionary trade agreements.
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Concessionary fares for young people and veterans have been protected as has free travel for the elderly and disabled.
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Over 300, 000 barrels a day of Venezuelan oil products is sold at a discount under a variety of concessionary deals.
Other proposed savings include closing public toilets, axing tourist information centres, scrapping funding for Christmas lights and withdrawing concessionary travel.
The only other concessionary agreement where we gave back anything was 1982, and we gave up nine paid days off.
Many businessmen are reluctant to complete the arduous paperwork involved, he says, or simply do not realise that concessionary tariffs exist.
In most of Asia's maturing economies, planners are forsaking such direct measures as favoritism, tax breaks and concessionary loans to promote development.
Taken with the concessionary terms agreed on in July, the package gives Greece its best chance yet of emerging from the crisis.
Part of the plans include providing concessionary parking for licence holders.
Similarly challenged to find savings, he produced a list - mutualise Scottish Water, restrict concessionary travel to those aged over 65, limit free prescriptions and introduce a graduate contribution.
"We welcome the decision by the Scottish government to safeguard the concessionary travel scheme in light of increased prices on some many other day to day items, " she said.
People who qualify for a concessionary bus pass include senior citizens, people with learning disabilities, those with sight and hearing impairments and people with certain medical conditions or physical disabilities.
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Land will often be provided by state governments at concessionary rates, and both developers and operating units can receive tax breaks for up to 15 years, provided they are export-oriented.
Montgomeryshire AM Russell George called for the government to explore options to extend the concessionary fares scheme, while Labour AM Ken Skates asked what support the government was offering to upgrade roads.
Western European governments have been more worried than Washington about the potential for civil disorder and large-scale emigration from the Soviet Union, and have been lending the nation huge sums at concessionary rates.
Their patents would have been quickly infringed by predatory larger corporations and rather than engage in unequal litigation battles against deep-pocketed and ruthless opponents, they could have felt forced to share their technology on concessionary terms.
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He questions whether it will eventually lead to great programming on the concessionary minority channels, noting that it took years--and a lot of money--for National Public Radio to build up the quality program base it is known for.
Although the loans themselves are given on concessionary terms (fair interest rates, a few years' grace period before repayment and maturities that stretch into the decades), that does not reduce worries over how the government is using - or misusing - the funds.
"Changes in the wider economy - including cuts by central and local government to things like concessionary fare reimbursement levels and the bus service operator's grant, have also taken their toll but despite this we do everything we can to keep fares as low as possible, " she added.
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While WAG intends to protect its "universal" policies, such as free prescriptions and concessionary fares, other changes in areas such as housing benefit have led the Institute of Fiscal Studies to suggest that the June 2010 budget cuts and service reductions will impact disproportionately on those that are most vulnerable.
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