subsidy

The significant subsidies that China, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea have given to private companies developing chips are a big reason for their success.

"I suppose the subsidy enables you to take the risk on the productions that are never going to recoup what they've cost, and often that will be the smaller-scale productions."

During Trump’s first term, farmers received billions of dollars in subsidies to help cushion the blow of the tariff-related losses for crops such as soybeans.

They have also promised to create more social housing and subsidies to help low-to-moderate-income earners own and rent more affordably.

He dropped the fuel subsidy, which had long kept petrol prices low, saying that the government could no longer afford it.