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This new flexibility provides an incentive to reform as fast as possible, and the Commission explicitly contemplates a competition of sorts: some countries may be able to catch and leapfrog the early leaders, who may be delayed if they slacken their efforts.
It should thus serve as a powerful incentive for MENA governments and businesses to change their approach.
Indeed, some contend that income inequality drives economic growth and that redistributive transfers weaken the incentive to work, in turn depressing productivity, reducing investment, and ultimately harming the wider community.
As long as Wilders and his European counterparts stay out of government, they have no incentive to temper their illiberal rhetoric and stop stoking up hostility towards ethnic and religious minorities.
A nuclear standoff on the Korean Peninsula would be characterized by both sides’ incentive to strike first to wipe out the other’s ability to counterattack.
Second, there is a strong political incentive to deprive women of their rights.
RMB-denominated bonds meet strong demand, yet non-residents have no great incentive to issue them.
But broader application of these tools has accelerated with the advent of new information technology, which also allows us to apply these tools without undermining people's incentive to work.
The resurgence of crisis conditions, particularly in the eurozone, had halted the resumption of global growth – and provided an added incentive to accelerate domestic reforms.
More insidious, by repealing much of the Dodd-Frank risk regulation, the Hensarling proposal would virtually eliminate banks’ incentive to choose the off-ramp.
If employees feel more like insiders – a key purpose of military rituals – there is little need for incentive pay or pay-for-performance schemes.
In the civilian world, too, the most important determinant of whether an organization functions well is not the monetary incentive system, as standard economic models would imply, but whether its workers identify with the organization and with their job within it.
If they do not, they will seek to game the incentive system, rather than to meet the organization’s goals.
But the EU can overcome national impediments by developing exemplary universities and research centers that would be properly European, serving as an incentive to quality and reform at the national level.
Without such a capacity, a nuclear-armed country has a much greater incentive than the US and the Soviet Union did to launch a first strike if it suspects that it will be attacked.
Decades ago, when intelligent machines and androids were found in science fiction rather than the real world, Milton Friedman, a champion of free-market capitalism, recommended a negative income tax to help the poor without undermining their incentive to work.
Worse still, because derivatives and repo investors jump to the head of the repayment line in so many ways, they have less incentive to foster market discipline by closely monitoring their counterparties’ solvency and carefully rationing their exposure to any single counterparty.
The country’s creditors, for their part, have an incentive to protect the euro and limit the geopolitical risk of a Greek exit from the eurozone.
As long as Greeks view assistance as guaranteed, they will have little incentive to put their country on a path toward self-sufficiency.
SWIFT’s compliance with that demand, however, would all but destroy any remaining incentive for Iran to remain in the JCPOA.
Both sides would then have a powerful incentive to pursue pro-growth policies.
These debentures should be designed to create a strong incentive for bank managers and shareholders to issue equity rather than suffer conversion.
Despite a wealth of opportunities across the Russian economy, the country’s hostile business climate – including bloated bureaucracies, widespread corruption, and the expansion of state-owned companies – has weakened Russian and foreign investors’ incentive to start new projects or expand existing ones.
The Independent Stability Council, not wishing to lose the Blue Bond club’s most stability-oriented members, would have a strong incentive to ensure that these countries’ interests are properly taken into account.
To say that they were implies three things: top bank executives were rewarded for short-term results with large amounts of up-front cash; bank executives did not hold sufficiently large amounts of stock to align their interests with those of shareholders; and executives with more short-term pay and less stock ownership should have had the greatest incentive to take bad and excessive risks, and thus should have performed worse in the crisis.
So it seems unlikely that this up-front cash provided much of an incentive for the average CEO to knowingly take bad or excessive risks that would jeopardize their much larger equity stakes.
It would also deprive their venal local accomplices of the incentive to exploit public office for private gain.
Moreover, the military has no incentive to value conscripts’ lives and well-being.
Problems with incentive pay have been ignored.
Singapore also pays its government employees well, which allows it to attract and retain top talent – and gives those whom it hires a powerful incentive to stay honest.
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