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Social Sciences - Economics / Fees charged for sludge collection services | | Spanish term or phrase: subsidio cruzado entre los servicios a domicilios respecto a | This is from a discussion about the fees charged to customers for trucks to pick up sludge.
La modalidad de cobranza lleva implícito un subsidio: siempre y cuando se encuentre en el radio urbano metropolitano, las empresas de recolección cobran un valor fijo sin importar la distancia entre el cliente y la empresa. En el caso de Santa Cruz, además, existe un **subsidio cruzado entre los servicios a domicilios respecto a** comercios e industrias. |
|  Muriel VasconcellosKudoZ activityQuestions: 520 (none open) ( 113 closed without grading) Answers: 4589
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| | cross-subsidy between services to households and those provided to | Explanation:
There are several ways of expressing it; this is one.
The main point is what to do with "respecto a". I don't think the usual translations of this -- in relation to, compared with/to -- are ideal in this context. Really it's just saying that with a flat rate, one set of customers is effectively subsidising the other, since the costs of providing the service are higher in one case than in the other. So it's between one set and the other; between one set "compared with/to" the other doesn't seem well expressed to me.
"Those provided to" it one way of clarifying what is being compared. One could say "to households on the one hand and businesses on the other", but it's a bit longer. "Domestic customers" would be fine instead of "households", I think. The hyphen in "cross-subsidy" is also optional; it quite often occurs without a hyphen. "Cross-subsidization" would be correct, of course, but I don't think there's any difference in this context and "cross-subsidy" just seems more natural to me.
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Or in this case, rather than a flat rate for all customers, it could mean, for example, that domestic customers are charged less than businesses but the cost of providing the service is the same, or at least that the cost differential is less than the price differential. In any case, the translation will be the same. |
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| Grading comment Thanks, Charles. I liked this very much and used it exactly as you proposed it.
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22 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1 cross-subsidy between services to households and those provided to
Explanation:
There are several ways of expressing it; this is one.
The main point is what to do with "respecto a". I don't think the usual translations of this -- in relation to, compared with/to -- are ideal in this context. Really it's just saying that with a flat rate, one set of customers is effectively subsidising the other, since the costs of providing the service are higher in one case than in the other. So it's between one set and the other; between one set "compared with/to" the other doesn't seem well expressed to me.
"Those provided to" it one way of clarifying what is being compared. One could say "to households on the one hand and businesses on the other", but it's a bit longer. "Domestic customers" would be fine instead of "households", I think. The hyphen in "cross-subsidy" is also optional; it quite often occurs without a hyphen. "Cross-subsidization" would be correct, of course, but I don't think there's any difference in this context and "cross-subsidy" just seems more natural to me.
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Note added at 38 mins (2011-11-13 11:11:40 GMT)
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Or in this case, rather than a flat rate for all customers, it could mean, for example, that domestic customers are charged less than businesses but the cost of providing the service is the same, or at least that the cost differential is less than the price differential. In any case, the translation will be the same.
| Charles Davis
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| | Grading comment | Thanks, Charles. I liked this very much and used it exactly as you proposed it. |
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