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Patent rules, for example, reflect the long-held assumption that strong protection provides an essential incentive for businesses to pursue innovation.
This type of extreme financial incentive is particularly true in some countries like Belgium or the Netherlands with easily accessible early retirement schemes - schemes which, to boot, often fail to adjust benefit levels to offset their longer duration.
But while the consensus view that Trump has effectively ceded East Asia to China is not necessarily wrong, it overlooks a fundamental geopolitical fact: American preeminence has created a powerful incentive for free riding in East Asia.
Indeed, this would create an incentive for each company to outperform the average, since above-average profits would go untaxed.
Of course, value-added includes profits, and to this extent the incentive for companies to manipulate transfer prices may reappear.
But the incentive would be much weakened, because gross returns typically represent a fairly small share of total value-added.
Moreover, since farmers who do have access to formal credit will have less incentive to repay their loans, banks will become more reluctant to lend to any farmers at all.
In Ningbo, China, citizens receive a financial incentive to separate organic waste and recyclables, reducing the city’s overall cost of collection.
Environmental concerns must be fully assimilated into economic policymaking – that is, into the incentive structure that drives decisions.
To stem the dramatic rise in disability payments, the Dutch now require firms with high claim rates to pay more for disability insurance, thereby creating a strong incentive to ensure greater workplace safety.
With fewer than 13,000 prescriptions annually for pyrimethamine, drug manufacturers did not have the financial incentive to navigate the US Food and Drug Administration’s application process for regulatory approval.
In the US, a few large public payers, such as Medicare and Medicaid, could be mandated to provide an overall volume guarantee, providing an incentive for new entrants and a reason for existing manufactures to keep prices in check.
He has every incentive to show the newcomers up by passing the ball and watching them fail.
Starting positions are unequal and incentive structures are imperfect.
The United States has plenty of incentive to put pressure on Pakistan, a country that has long pretended to be an ally, even as it continues to aid the militant groups fighting and killing US soldiers in neighboring Afghanistan.
Many people have died in the unrest Nkurunziza caused, giving him and other officials an incentive to withdraw from the ICC.
These begin with rewriting the rules of the market economy to ensure greater equality, more long-term thinking, and reining in the financial market with effective regulation and appropriate incentive structures.
This means less control and direct oversight of the bureaucracy, and an increased incentive to spend the day thinking up big plans rather than concentrating on targeted improvements.
There is insufficient incentive, even at local levels, for taking the long view, and for restraining our tendency to consume in order to benefit all of humanity.
Reinforcing this, the typical career-conscious economist has little incentive to deviate.
Tight national caps on Target balances could provide the right incentive to comply.
At the same time, China must reduce the incentive for graft, by raising the pay of public servants at all levels.
Countries that regard raising their ranking as a policy goal have no incentive to improve licensing procedures in any of these other areas.
But rewarding North Korea generously for partial measures reduces its incentive to take additional steps, much less complete the process of denuclearization.
Today, EU membership is a more powerful incentive than ever for what the EU calls three “candidate countries” (Croatia, FYR Macedonia, and Turkey) and five “potential candidate countries” (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo under UN Security Council Resolution 1244, Montenegro, and Serbia).
With only around €10 billion ($10.8 billion), these countries could have provided better housing, food, and education for refugees, thereby reducing the incentive to flee to Europe.
Beyond reducing the incentive for asylum-seekers to risk their lives and life savings to cross the Mediterranean, such an approach would show solidarity with the frontline countries, which will continue to host most of the refugees.
The world has known about the deadly nature of the Ebola virus since 1976; but, because its victims were poor, pharmaceutical companies had no incentive to develop a vaccine.
This presupposes higher investment in health care, nutrition, and sanitation, so that India’s citizens are healthy and able; education tailored to developing skills that are valued in the labor market; and the creation of jobs in firms that have an incentive to invest in training.
Moreover, because maximizing shareholder value is a poor incentive for workers and middle managers, companies’ boards have increasingly centralized power around chief executives, thereby encouraging a “heroic” form of leadership that is detached from the rest of the enterprise.
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