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Considered high risk borrowers, SMEs generally have to pay much higher interest rates than larger firms in in many African countries the interest rate exceeds 30 (Kwaku 2003).

on the interest rates on private loans.

There is no indication that the ratio will decline anytime soon, which is particularly worrisome, given the low profitability and high borrowing costs that China s industrial enterprises face. Indeed, Chinese firms profitability amounted to just over 6 last year, with 2012 profits for China s 500 largest (mostly state owned) corporations barely exceeding 2 .

Funds from the Ministry of the Interior to purchase food have been allocated late, compelling prison directors to borrow funds at high interest rates on the commercial market.

This partly reflects borrowing cost differentials. If the local interest rate is 17 per year and the dollar interest rate is 2 , it still makes sense to borrow in dollars as long as the domestic currency is expected to depreciate 15 or less.

With regard to the second problem, the interest rate on rescue packages should be reduced to the rate at which the EU itself can borrow on the market. This would have the advantage of developing an active Eurobond market.

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Similarly, a uniform (high) interest rate applied to all industries and firms would penalize those firms in need of high levels of working capital.

Meanwhile, interest rates on bank loans to nonfinancial enterprises remain close to 7 , despite having fallen slightly over the last year. And, in the second quarter of this year, the annualized interest rate on loans to small nonfinancial corporations surpassed 25 .

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But they can reduce interest rates by eliminating the perceived risk of sovereign default. Banks will be able to borrow from one another for less, and thus able to lend to firms for less. This suggests that investment may respond better than the pessimists fear.

First, the domestic interest groups that benefit from low borrowing costs have become a barrier to their liberalization. There is a common sense consensus among borrowers in China, as well as in highly indebted advanced economies that raising interest rates would undermine GDP growth, employment, and asset prices.

Even though the employment rate of men is higher than that of women, the unemployment rate for men is higher (10.2 ) than that of women (9.9 ).

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The situation now has diverged from the traditional scenario in which the Fed controlled the banks use of reserves by adjusting the federal funds rate (the rate at which banks lend their reserves to one another). The principle difference is that the Fed will now have to pay the interest on the nearly 2.5 trillion of excess reserves that it holds.

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Article 73 If any units or individuals, in violation of the provisions of Article 60 of this Law and without consent of the coal mining enterprise concerned, put up buildings or other structures on the land during the validity period for use of the land legally obatained by the coal mining enterprise, the local people's government shall persuade them to pull down the buildings or other structures if they refuse to do so, they shall be ordered to pull them down.

Firstly, in promoting investment in industries with greater potential for learning, scale economies and productivity growth, the policies served to raise the average rate of return on investment, and hence total profits, thereby stimulating capital accumulation.

Finally, there is a long history of underground lending and borrowing in some of China s east coast region, especially in Wenzhou. Whenever monetary tightening causes bank credit to shrink, small and medium size private enterprises are prepared to borrow at suicidally high interest rates from relatives or loan sharks.

The fact that the Provident Fund humanitarian loans do not carry any interest rate (commercial or otherwise) renders the effective interest rate method for amortization inapplicable, as there are no interest deductions from the repayment instalments as required by the effective rate method.

The rate of female employment in the service sector varies also within regions, depending on the sector.

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In December 1996 the female unemployment rate was significantly higher than the male rate it rose from 12.6 per cent in 1995 to 15.1 per cent in 1996, while the male rate rose from 6.5 to 9.6 per cent over the same two years. DANE.

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In the absence of a fully competitive banking sector, lenders demand high interest rates and security which is often not available to small business or agricultural producers. Business growth requires ready access to credit.

If the interest rate is raised too little, banks will use more reserves to support lending, leading to higher inflation. If the interest rate is raised too much, economic activity will be constrained and growth could fizzle.

The industrial return coefficient calculated by ESA for all countries, showing the geographical distributions of contracts awarded, amounted to 1.02 for Austria as of December 1995. 86.4 of the contracts were awarded to Austrian industrial companies and 13.6 to scientific research institutions and universities.

When the data are broken down by sex, the unemployment rates for men and women appear to be virtually identical to the national urban average, but in metropolitan Lima, the gap between men and women is greatly to the disadvantage of women.

Exacerbating matters, the central bank s repeated efforts to tighten the money supply raises the cost of capital. Last June, the annualized interbank lending rate surged to more than 10 a level that it almost matched in December.

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(4) if the land is leased, the enterprise shall use it by leasing, the rent shall be determined by referring to the loan interest rate of the banks in the same period and shall be provisioned in the leasing contract.

Uniformity means that the same degree of incentives, e.g. a nominal tariff rate, is applied to all sectors, industries and firms.

After all, corporate borrowers do not borrow at the risk free yield of, say, US Treasury bonds, and evidence shows that monetary expansion can push down the interest rate on government debt, but have hardly any effect on new bank lending to firms or households. In fact, the causality is the reverse the reason why government interest rates in the UK and elsewhere are so low is that interest rates for private sector loans are so high.

So, if the PBOC sets the interest rate on one year deposits at 3 , commercial banks can offer depositors a rate as high as 3.3 . Many analysts viewed this policy, which introduced a small degree of previously non existent competition among commercial banks, as a sign that China would soon liberalize interest rates further.

The Maori unemployment rate remains significantly higher than that of non Maori, and the Government has therefore put in place employment initiatives specially aimed at Maori.

The banks borrowed heavily abroad due to attractive foreign interest rates, and onlent the funds to corporate clients.

The tables below show the workforce indicators in Syria and unemployment rates.

It calls for dismantling trade barriers and ending agricultural subsidies that hurt farmers and small businesses.

Moreover, ongoing interest rate liberalization which has occurred both openly and surreptitiously means that artificially low borrowing costs have become far more difficult to maintain. Though the People s Bank of China still officially caps interest rates on deposits, commercial banks in cooperation with nonbank financial institutions, especially trust companies are using wealth management products to attract deposits with de facto free market interest rates.

The interest rate would be much lower than the bank rate and it would be repaid after graduation.

In terms of employment opportunities, the open unemployment rate for women (21.6 per cent) is considerably higher than that for men (13.7 per cent).

Real estate rental yields and stock market payouts are low, and real estate and stock prices may well fall as much as or more than bond prices if interest rates spike. Only businesses that can borrow long term now, lock in a low real interest rate, and invest in expanding their capacity can make the domestic bet that interest rates will rise.