Even universal handouts may be worth considering: by one estimate, the money India spends on public-works schemes would do more to cut poverty if it was simply shared equally among the entire rural population.
"The real risks of this nuclear bailout is for taxpayers, who will be on the hook for questionable government handouts that are worth more than the entire company," he said.
Analysts estimate that the average handout will be worth £500 to £1,000, though in truth, the large number of unknowns means it is difficult to make predictions.
Analysts estimate the average handout will be worth £500 to £1,000 - a far cry from the £5,000 to £6,000 bandied about six years ago when the company defeated a conversion attempt led by carpetbaggers.
Returning refugees get a slender welcome-home package: some medical benefits, a handout of cash worth $35 a month, and sometimes a small income if they are lucky enough to be given or lent a tractor or cow.Serb refugees are hoping that there will be an injection of aid (largely from the EU) for the Balkans as a whole and that they, too, will benefit from it.
The government also plans a fiscal stimulus of infrastructure investment, consumer handouts and tax cuts worth around 3% of GDP in 2009.
"More than a third (35%) are already providing regular financial handouts to family members, worth an average of nearly £250 each month or almost £3,000 a year.
Only later do you understand that like hard-case prisoners they are sizing you up, assessing what you might be worth in terms of handouts of, in the goats' case, stale bread.
Stuffed as it was with costly handouts to rich farmers, the bill was hardly worth mourning.
The central government has tried to crack down on the most lavish handouts, such as the gold ninja throwing-knives worth ¥400,000 that one city was offering in honour of its ninja spies.
Studies show that the money saved in any one year by liberating Congress to slash special-interest handouts would finance over a half-century's worth of citizen-funded elections and save taxpayers billions on top of that.
