Cuts in subsidies have also often been justified by a need to obey European competition laws.
Lishen received millions in subsidies and hundreds of acres of low-cost land to build a factory.
And we made drastic cuts in subsidies, which were then around 10% of GDP.
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The reduction in subsidies would mean fewer Sunday and evening bus services on some rural routes.
This has boosted its subscriber numbers but revenue growth is lagging behind the growth in subsidies.
Boeing, however, says it expected the deal to lead to a gradual reduction in subsidies to Airbus.
The SBA maintains that staffing cuts and other operational savings have offset much of the drop in subsidies.
Mr Osborne wants a new wave of gas-fired power stations and reductions in subsidies to renewable energy sources.
Chancellor George Osborne announced in his Autumn Statement that there would be a reduction in subsidies for solar panels.
Promised wage hikes have reportedly been diminished through reductions in subsidies and bonuses.
The government foresees a further 150 billion in subsidies until the year 2019.
Rising incomes have also outpaced rising oil prices and sustained emerging market demand despite a general reduction in subsidies, the IEA says.
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The 1990s have seen increases in subsidies in both France and Germany.
More than 10 billion yuan in subsidies is being paid to carmakers, and billions of yuan more are being granted to encourage car sales.
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But others say it is vital they know how much they will receive in subsidies and when they will receive it as soon as possible.
It's a sad fate for a promising fuel, one that Washington, in a fit of political expedience, pronounced the savior of the roadways and smothered in subsidies.
The current government has proposed new measures to address this situation, including a 7% tax on generation, and a drastic cut in subsidies for new clean energy projects.
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By the same token however, if private investors will not invest in wind without billions in subsidies, then it is renewables that are not sustainable in the marketplace.
We're giving 50 billion a year in aid to all the developing countries around the world, and we're giving 350 billion a year in subsidies to agricultural producers.
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However, the finance minister announced a 16% rise in public spending, saying he had "retrieved some economic space" thanks to recent austerity measures, including a cut in subsidies.
Politicians and their staffers can make or break fortunes by slipping a rider into a "must pass" bill or dispensing billions of dollars in subsidies to favored constituencies.
Given the reductions in subsidies to localities he is proposing in his next budget, he wants to be sure that local authorities have foolproof cost-cutting mechanisms at their disposal.
Mohammed Lamine, who works for Oxfam in Dakar, says the billions of dollars in subsidies paid each year to farmers in the United States and Europe are undercutting African farmers.
But Europe's farms cost taxpayers billions of euros in subsidies each year, and EU agricultural inspectors are turning to technology to improve their patchy record on preventing fraud and waste.
Earlier cuts from the outgoing Socialist PSOE party garnered legal action of its own, with over a dozen investment funds lodging complaints against Madrid as a result of P-focused reductions in subsidies.
Assuming it keeps the oil and gas extracted from under Scottish waters, an independent Scotland would currently gain roughly as much in taxes as it would lose in subsidies (see article).
Whatever team she puts in place, Miss Megawati seems unlikely to press hard for asset sales from the bank-restructuring agency, for deep cuts in subsidies, or for reducing the government's influence over small business and agriculture.
Since the Arab League supports the Palestinian Authority with hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies each year, the administration reasons that the leverage of funding might persuade the Palestinians to renounce attacks on Israeli civilians for the good of progress toward a Palestinian state.
Year-on-year OIBDA margin improved primarily due to the reductions in equipment subsidies in connection with the new unlimited Value plans.
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