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They would thus have a powerful incentive to impose controls on spending to insure that their claims could be met.
There is certainly an economic incentive for private actors to channel their money toward developing-country infrastructure.
And the incentive for authors to cooperate is, at best, mixed.
In fact, given that our largest banks are now undoubtedly too big to fail, they have even more incentive to increase their debt levels relative to their equity.
In theory, this approach provides an incentive for the participants to cooperate, as the arrangement’s breakdown would accelerate the depletion that all have agreed to avoid.
Once Bush’s re-election was secured, however, he had less incentive to seek the support of these powerful lobbies.
But, for some managers, stock options have created an incentive to inflate profits and hide losses, thereby enriching themselves artificially while jeopardizing their companies and other shareholders.
Monopolists may have much less incentive to innovate than they would if they had to compete.
Moreover, once the constraints on deficit spending are off, a major incentive for badly needed structural reform in Europe will be removed.
And even where revenues are otherwise adequate, states have an incentive to spend more on social programs and, pointing to the resulting deficits, ask for additional federal transfers.
Of course, NATO cannot safeguard democracy alone and it is no panacea for our many social and political illnesses; yet it can act (and has already done so during the process of admission) as an incentive for governments and parties to behave responsibly and to abide by the rule of law.
But proponents of such US guarantees believe that they discourage aggression and contribute to nuclear non-proliferation by reducing the incentive of US allies to seek their own nuclear deterrents.
If assault were punished with execution, perpetrators would have an incentive to kill their victims to avoid discovery (which is a major reason why the severity of punishments more generally should be matched to the severity of crimes).
But with India’s vast internal market, many designers have an incentive to improve it.
This would give the company an incentive to ensure that new versions are compatible with and significantly better than old versions – otherwise the new versions wouldn’t sell, or at least not easily.
By seeming to say that they would not support the TPP under any conditions, Obama had little incentive to pursue their demands.
The TPP’s critics often neglected to acknowledge that international dispute-settlement mechanisms could ever serve a valid purpose, or that some degree of patent protection is needed if pharmaceutical companies are to have sufficient incentive to invest in research and development.
Even more problematic is the revelation that CCS and BECCS would most likely be used for “enhanced oil recovery,” with compressed CO2 pumped into old oil wells for storage, thereby creating a financial incentive to recover more oil.
But, unlike the for-profit sector, the nonprofit world is not fluid and efficient, and nonprofits have no incentive to merge, particularly as some people would have to give up their board seats or leadership positions.
The problem with charities is that they have little incentive to become more efficient.
Unfortunately, this elegant solution assumes away all the problems associated with the complex web of contracts and relationships that constitutes the financial system, the limited information of all the affected parties, and the incentive of each of those parties to protect its own interests.
On a first approximation, low-carbon paths are the dominant strategies, implying a completely different and far more favorable view of the incentive structures at work.
Two other destabilizing developments emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century: a strong incentive to use debt to prop up demand, and a shift toward financing public debt through private institutions at market prices, under the pretext of fighting inflation.
The prospect of a threat to the stability of the greater Middle East and to the flow of oil should give China an incentive to support robust sanctions against Iran.
But their incentive to limit inflation may not be particularly strong.
The Ministry of Trade and Industry established a sensible incentive scheme for export-oriented investment and a black empowerment program that encourages investors to help the previously neglected workforce.
But some of this increase is driven by more worrisome factors: the effects of large budget deficits and debt on sovereign risk, and thus on real interest rates; and concerns that the incentive to monetize these large deficits will lead to high inflation after the global economy recovers in 2010-11 and deflationary forces abate.
And it would give those governments a much stronger incentive to comply with EU rules and uphold the shared values that allow the single market to function properly.The sad reality is that illiberal governments, such as those now in power in Poland and Hungary, are more than happy to take EU money while rejecting EU values.
And it would give those governments a much stronger incentive to comply with EU rules and uphold the shared values that allow the single market to function properly.
Indeed, the prospect of hosting the football World Cup might constitute yet another incentive for Israelis and Palestinians to reach a settlement.
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