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It does not need any more budget support or soft loans.

There was a whole schedule to give soft loans from banks to traders and small industries.

Most of these loans could be characterized as soft loans.

The World Bank and other development institutions provide soft loans to developing countries.

"Our traditional friends have indicated that the days of grants, aid and soft loans are gone.

Other nations, especially Japan, wait impatiently in the wings with their offers of soft loans.

Government programs offer soft loans and propose the building of new industrial estates in population centers outside the capital area.

In order to solve this problem, government through Ministry of Industry have issued a soft loan.

The bank was created to disburse soft loans and other forms of credit to the very poor to start their own businesses.

A soft loan is a loan with a below-market rate of interest.

Soft loans are usually provided by governments to projects they think are worthwhile.

However, in October 2004 it announced it would instead seek a soft loan for this purpose.

Not just in the form of subsidies and soft loans, but in helping to create domestic demand.

The days of the billion-dollar aid grants, soft loans, and cheap arms supplies have passed.

Large-scale structural projects, often accompanied by a soft loan, are proposed to African countries rich in natural resources.

In theory it is there to make soft loans available to struggling businesses, but who are, in fact, the recipients?

Investments are funded by external donors through soft loans provided to the government of Armenia.

Sometimes soft loans provide other concessions to borrowers, such as long repayment periods or interest holidays.

India offered a soft loan of US$25 million to improve its infrastructure.

The production of renewable energy sources should also be promoted through grants, soft loans and fiscal incentives, the report concluded.

The project was implemented with soft loan funding provided by the World Bank in two stages after due appraisal.

Another implication of a correct strategy is that soft loans would not be linked to compulsory purchases in the donor country.

We certainly don't see it being frittered away, giving soft loans to inappropriate ventures.'

The project will cost US$ 81 million and would be financed by a soft loan from the Indian government.

Municipalities receive grants and soft loans in order to finance investments, particularly in wastewater treatment.

Soft credit is being squeezed.

By engaging generous outside partners in finance, SPRAT is planning to help provide interest-free soft credit of up to Rs.

In this budget proposal, the Chernomyrdin government sent a signal that it no longer would tolerate soft credits and loose budget constraints, and that stabilization must be a top government priority.

The plan could apply to $127 million in soft credits, $216 million in trade-related credits and $94 million in United States Government guarantees, the bank said in a statement.

But the signals will get through only if there is budget discipline: if, in other words, the still massive indirect subsidies to factories - tax exemptions, soft credits, loans - are cut at the same time.

On Jan. 1, the fantastic world of soft credits, weird barters and transferable rubles will come to an end, and Eastern Europe's trade relationships will be based on market prices and hard currencies.

Along with the $4 billion in financial aid and soft credit provided by the US (as well as the indirect economic stimulus of US food and military aid) over the 1945-1965 period, Taiwan had the necessary capital to restart its economy.

To offset the recessionary effects of the measures, which had led to the lay-off of an estimated 350,000 industrial workers, the government announced $2,000 million in official loans to companies within the capital goods sector on April 26, with similar "soft credits" planned for the car, civil construction and agricultural sectors.

The British proposal - which is not an original proposal, it has already been proposed by the Commission - to increase the funds of the European Investment Bank and, by means of soft credits and guarantees, to enhance research, is not a solution to the problem, but it must be a complementary instrument.