No one is sure of the total subsidy but, as a guide, BNDES lends at about 6%, well below the yield on ten-year government bonds of 12%.
Rubin says all sorts of programmers are whipping out code to try to win that prize money, from a team assembled by the government of Taiwan to 12-year-olds in their parents' basements, and think about this.
More than 20% of District of Columbia residents work for the federal government, as do 12% of workers in Maryland and Virginia.
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Born in a suburb of Algiers, Jacques was expelled from his school at the age of 12 because of the Vichy government's racial laws.
Thus, Obama and the GOP do budget battle on the exceedingly narrow ground of non-security domestic spending roughly 12 percent of government.
The CBI began a preliminary investigation of the matter late last month at the request of the Indian government after the Feb. 12 arrest in Italy of Mr. Orsi, Finmeccanica's then-CEO, on bribery allegations.
In a country with no tradition of modern democracy, where, for instance, about 75% of females (and 90% in the south) are illiterate, there needs to be plenty of time to explain how people could choose their candidates for no fewer than 12 layers of government.
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"The market there started to decline not just because of government measures but because of seven interest rate hikes in 12 months, " says Gin.
It is a small room in a bustling government office, where a team of 12 women work round the clock in shifts and attend to calls.
For instance, the government is now the owner of nearly 12% of New World Development and of more than 10% of Cheung Kong, two giant property conglomerates.
If we are going to cap some direct spending (at least for the 12 percent of government that the various proposed freezes seem to target), we ought to do the same for the tax deductions, credits, and exclusions that are effectively the same thing.
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HUNTER-GAULT: Those campaigns, coupled with the government of Malawi's decision to introduce free primary education some 12 years ago, one of the first to do so on the African continent, have resulted in over 90 percent enrollment for both boys and girls.
Mr Harper became prime minister in 2006, after elections that brought to an end 12 years of Liberal government.
The government has set a target of a maximum 12-month wait for NHS operations by the end of 2003 and to just six months by 2005.
Ban said it appears violence "dropped markedly" after the truce began April 12, but government shelling of civilian areas, actions by armed groups, and other hostilities jumped again in recent days.
The Council, which will be administered by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), will be comprised of no more than 12 individuals from a variety of sectors outside the Federal Government, including, among others, institutions of higher education, non-profit and philanthropic organizations, civil society, and private industry.
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Reversing months of denials, the government on Saturday acknowledged the abuses, bringing charges against 12 military officials for the murder of three young protestors this summer.
There are no recent official data providing estimates of outstanding local government debt, although the debt likely rose to at least 12 trillion yuan at the end of 2012 (or 23% of GDP).
Since incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of the June 12 election, opposition candidates and their supporters have accused the Iranian government of falsifying election results.
Prosecutors allege he paid bribes to ensure the sale of 12 helicopters to the Indian government.
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Silvio Berlusconi's government has only a very slim majority of around 12 in the Senate, Italy's upper house.
The target then is for the Welsh government to issue its decision within 12 weeks of receiving the report.
Last month he presented his government with a 12-point economic programme of dizzying banality, seemingly the work of his Kremlin advisers.
The Welsh government also revealed it had received a total of 12 complaints relating to the carrier bag charge through its formal customer complaints policy.
Trying to stem the tide, the central bank has raised rates: The ten-year government bond now yields 12%, one of the highest rates in Asia.
Brazil government bonds have yields to maturity of more than 12%.
Mr Salmond asked why, if the UK government wanted Scotland to make further cuts this year, it had offered the Scottish government the choice of deferring them until 2011-12.
However, the NAO said information compiled by the Audit Commission, the local government spending watchdog, suggested that 12% of local authorities were at risk of not balancing future budgets.
They understand very well that the U.S., through the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., which includes representatives of 12 U.S. government agencies, has already blocked China National Offshore Oil 's attempt to acquire Unocal, an independent oil producer.
They understand very well that the U.S., through the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., which includes representatives of 12 U.S. government agencies, has already blocked China National Offshore Oil 's (nyse: CEO - news - people ) attempt to acquire Unocal, an independent oil producer.
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