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.
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.
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.
"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.
Austrian VCs, Aws Founders Fund (the fund of the Austrian federal development bank) and Speedinvest, also participated.
"The optimal Federal siting decision is the choice that meets Federal agency mission needs while also leveraging Federal development in support of other Federal and local goals.
The flooding prompted the United States Congress to pass the Flood Control Act of 1950, authorizing the federal development of additional dams and other flood control mechanisms.
In part, they're interested in the opportunities for fraud and embezzlement of the massive inflow of federal development funds perhaps $4.5 billion this year alone and the newly-announced casino complexes to be built near the resort city of Yalta.
