While the re-election of President Obama is seen good news for green tech companies, whether the government will increase its financial support and successfully push for emission-reduction policies remain to be seen.

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Local companies developing to these standards receive strong financial support via incentives, direct subsidies or government agency procurement policies, ensuring they quickly win the local market.

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In 1922, the League of Nations appointed a commissioner-general Alfred Zimmerman of the Netherlands to oversee in minute detail Austrian government policies and spending as the price for the financial support it was receiving from other governments (including Spain and Italy).

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But the truth is that some of these same banks and other major financial institutions, including those bailed out by American taxpayers, for years have deliberately been supporting "Shariah-compliant" financial policies that almost assuredly end up being used to support illicit Middle Eastern, terrorist interests with close ties to Iran.

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To help secure the financial future for all Americans, we must adopt tax policies that support growth and promote capital formation.

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Countries such as Brazil and Uruguay, which are seen to be victims of financial contagion from Argentina but to have sound economic policies, can expect support.

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To cap it all, his pro-market, anti-drug policies have won Mr Fujimori the support of the international financial institutions and the United States something they may come to rue as challenges to democracy mount in the Andean countries.

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In order to win over red-shirt supporters, his government has announced a string of populist economic policies, such as free schooling for 12m students, more financial support for the elderly and, most recently, low-cost loans for the poor.

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