We have tried nice houses, electricity, car loans and internet links".
The report itemizes subsidies in the form of land grants, discounted electricity, and loans from state banks at below market interest rates or "without expectation of repayment" (p. 59).
But we have to pay for medication, workers' wages, service our loans, electricity, all of that.
Ukraine says it cannot afford to close Chernobyl, which provides 5percentt of all its electricity, without Western loans for decommissioning the plant.
He sang, gulped down beer and jabbed his index finger into the air at rallies to punctuate promises to bring down telephone and electricity rates, provide loans to poor farmers, lower taxes for failing industries and renegotiate the foreign debt.
But even in the solar industry, many worry that Western companies may have fragile prospects when competing with Chinese companies that have cheap loans, electricity and labor, paying recent college graduates in engineering $7,000 a year.
Mr Li preferred to track Liaoning's economy by looking at other indicators: the cargo volume on the province's railways, electricity consumption and loans disbursed by banks.In Mr Li's honour, The Economist has created a "Keqiang index" for China's economy, combining his three preferred indicators (see chart).
The company donates 10percentt of its proceeds to the Village Development Fund, which provides underserved people in Laos with electricity and micro-loans for livestock and other small business investments.
Land, water, electricity, oil and bank loans remain relatively inexpensive, even for heavy polluters.
