Sentence examples for consumer handouts from inspiring English sources

The government also plans a fiscal stimulus of infrastructure investment, consumer handouts and tax cuts worth around 3% of GDP in 2009.

Like consumer advertising, the handouts of sample-size medicines are a growing part of drug companies' marketing budgets.

Handouts to consumers through tax cuts and welfare spending thus make sense in the short run, so long as India's already-stretched public finances are repaired when the crisis abates.

Her advocacy of market-based approaches is inspired not by ideology but the firm conviction that markets are the best "listening device" to ascertain the real needs and wants of poor consumers.Ms Novogratz dismisses those such as Jeffrey Sachs, an influential economist, who think that the bottom billion are too poor to be treated as consumers, and should sometimes receive handouts instead.

"A one-time handout of cash will boost consumer spending on a temporary basis," he said.

A one-time (or two-time) handout of cash will boost consumer spending on a temporary basis.

There are numerous types of consumer subsidies, ranging from lower tax rates and wage subsidies to cash handouts and undercharging for government services.

If Hinkley-style handouts are repeated, you're talking serious money for consumers and a big hit to the competitiveness of UK industry.

"This way, the government would not be giving the industry a handout," said J. Robert Hunter, the director of insurance for the consumer federation and the author of the plan.

Yet the gains in jobs followed a surprisingly upbeat report on retail sales for March, which showed consumers freely spent on clothes and household goods with wallets fattened by government handouts.

"We're talking about industries where we have documented so many abuses of consumers, yet somehow we have these new policies that essentially amount to corporate handouts," said Christine Hines, legislative director for the National Association of Consumer Advocates.