KfW, the federal development bank, lends to new companies, as do its state-level equivalents.
A recent infusion of state and federal development aid has sparked a small building boom in the city's downtown.
Many tribes in the United States were economically devastated by the Pick-Sloan plan, a post-World War II federal development program that placed major dams on the Missouri River and numerous smaller dams on its tributaries.
If people had income, they would have food and water, because someone would find it worthwhile to supply them," says Sergio Moreira, director of Sudene, the federal development agency for the north-east.
Germany's federal development minister, Gerd Müller, one of the politicians behind the initiative, said seamstresses in Vietnam or Bangladesh who worked on jeans that could be sold in Berlin for €100 (£73) a pair worked at an hourly rate of 15 cents.
"But if people look on the Web site, they tend to understand, 'If I look, there are amazing things, at amazingly cheap prices, here.' " HHG is marketing 18 condos that it created out of a rehabilitated Victorian factory building, backed by a federal development subsidy, at prices ranging from $129,000 to $289,000 for spacious one- and two-bedroom units.
Also among the federal developments was the Pentagon, built during World War II as the headquarters for the Department of Defense.
Since a $40 million federal urban development grant helped Lefrak begin developing Newport in the 1980's on a blighted stretch of Hudson River waterfront, it has been a community largely isolated physically and in civic life from the rest of Jersey City.
Cleanup was finally accomplished — and developers attracted — with the aid of almost $150 million in state and federal economic development grant money.
We have received a grant from the federal economic development department to do a feasibility study for that site".
The sites were authorized by Congress in 1945, after villages and fishing grounds were flooded by federal dam development.
