In one incident, she says, Golkar officials availed themselves of soft loans via government economic agencies.
His strategy is to give soft loans and education exchanges, and then push for private corporate investment.
Our financial exposure is therefore so far in terms of grants, soft loans, or guarantees, not equity.
The hit would come after a decade, because the Bank's soft loans have a ten-year grace period.
America's Air Transportation Stabilisation Board, set up after the terrorist attacks of 2001, has already bailed out several airlines with soft loans.
Airbus, of course, has had some special help: soft loans, worth one-third of the development cost, from the German, French and British governments.
India extends large, soft loans to curry favour with a friendly regime in Bangladesh and is paying for post-war reconstruction in Sri Lanka.
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Although it pointedly declined a bail-out in America, it has been happy to take grants and soft loans in Germany and Romania to develop an efficient engine.
Mr Hashimoto outlined a few measures to alleviate regional distress cheaper soft loans for infrastructure projects, a big export-credit insurance facility, and training in Japan for 20, 000 South-East Asians.
The rescue package may over time evolve into a rolling series of soft loans, at ever-lower interest rates and increasing maturity, designed to prop up Greece and keep default at bay.
The fact that Russia eventually agreed to help rather than hinder the West in Yugoslavia probably says more about its financial dependence (on soft western loans) than about Mr Talbott's cunning, patience or literary sensitivities.
Even a soft landing is expected to produce a new wave of non-performing loans that could make the banks look less attractive to investors.
Mirae added their name to the soft landing crowd on Tuesday, saying that issues raised recently about nonperforming loans (NPLs) have raised concerns over the possibility of a sharp slowdown in growth and negative real interest rates.
Michio Ochi, who heads the government commission charged with financial-sector reform, said it would slow down their write-offs of bad loans, and hamper their return to health (although the soft policies pursued by Mr Ochi himself are also often blamed for the banks' lingering malaise).
After graduating in 1991 he returned to Iceland to pay off student loans, working for his father, who oversaw the brewery and soft drink units of Pharmaco, a drugmaker.
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