But those handouts have bred a culture of dependency, with no incentives to work, and Cuba's struggling inefficient economy can no longer afford to be so generous.
Amazonia's state governors opposed the recent decision by Brazil's president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, to abolish Sudam, a corruption-riddled Amazonian "development" agency, whose handouts have sponsored much futile forest clearance.The military dictators who ran Brazil from 1964 to 1985 were obsessed with populating and developing Amazonia, convinced that otherwise another power might seize it.
This hits locally made cars' competitiveness both at home compared with imported ones and abroad, where two-fifths of production ends up.Decades of generous state handouts have "forestalled but not prevented" the car industry's problems, concluded a recent report by the government's Productivity Commission.
Handouts have advantages in that they allow your participants to make notes and interact with the data, as well as having a tangible resource to take with them.
Royalty payments and company handouts have brought electricity, roads and some jobs, but the oil boom also caused a population explosion, inflated prices and the decline of local agriculture.
Defeating these handouts will have a HUGE impact.
Unlike state pensions, working-age handouts have been squeezed.
An angry health agency spokesman, Bill Pierce, says video handouts have been around for years.
But the handouts have sparked several deadly stampedes over the years.
Such "handouts" have angered the middle-class populists of northern Europe, from the Daily Mail to the Real Finns.
