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In this environment, distributing largesse financed by the central bank would have dangerous systemic consequences in the long run, because it would create perverse incentives for everyone involved.
But most economists agree that such incentives must be balanced against the need to accelerate knowledge dissemination and absorption, and that the optimum is somewhere in the middle.
In these cases, government will have to provide incentives, or regulate and tax.
Whereas pharmaceutical companies lack incentives to aid the poor in developing countries, they have strong incentives to develop products for people in affluent countries.
Some government- and foundation-funded research addresses diseases that primarily affect poor people, but these efforts are not systematic and do not use the incentives that work well to drive pharmaceutical innovation elsewhere.
If the Health Impact Fund could be adequately financed, it would provide incentives to develop products in proportion to their impact in reducing the global burden of disease.
It would also provide the evidence needed to go to governments, foundations, and global institutions for the much larger sums required to expand the present system of incentives that guide pharmaceutical companies’ decisions.
We need to protect vulnerable populations, including indigenous peoples, and we need financial incentives to preserve forests and the livelihoods of those who depend on them.
Yet investments in new resource-saving technologies are not being made at a sufficient scale, because market signals don’t give the right incentives, and because governments are not yet cooperating adequately to develop and spread their use.
About a third of young people around the world pursue a college degree or advanced training; but, despite scholarships and other incentives, the percentage of refugees who do so is a mere 1%.
To make a real difference, especially in the near term, the world must combine mitigation and adaptation with increased research and development into carbon-saving and sequestering technology, which in turn requires designing and exploiting market-based incentives.
The new tax law creates generous incentives to encourage private investment in distressed urban and rural areas; and a provision in the budget package will establish a competitive grant program to help states fund “pay-for-success” contracts.
Private investors are then granted significant tax incentives to reinvest their unrealized capital gains into OZs through “Opportunity Funds.”
For emerging markets, the best way forward is to correct the incentives for interest-rate arbitrage at the source of capital flows.
The price was negotiated in early 2011, roughly to match the European Union’s emissions-trading price, and with incentives for domestic emissions reductions in mind.
Starting out with a fixed carbon price (or one within a defined range) assures incentives for business, while making it easy to anticipate resulting government revenue and effects on the cost of living.
The new electoral system changes the politicians’ incentives, and could induce a return to shifting coalitions and unstable governments.
The key to success is that the incentives are based on outcomes, not the outflow of money.
Moreover, this was worse than dishonest: stock options provided managers with strong incentives to get the value of their stocks up fast.
Corporate officers respond to incentives and opportunities.
The proponents of markets are right that incentives matter, but inappropriate incentives do not create real wealth in the economy, only a massive misallocation of resources of the sort we see now in such industries as telecoms.
With the wrong incentives, with the kinds of incentives that were in place in corporate America, a drive for the creation of the appearance of wealth took hold, at the cost of actual wealth.
Moreover, a distortion of private incentives affects public incentives as well, and the two become intertwined.
As "money talks" in politics, private incentives distort public policy and prevent it from correcting market failures in ways that, in turn, further distort private incentives.
But by making ourselves more sensitive to their presence and becoming aware of the distorted incentives to which they give rise, as well as by imposing regulations that limit their scope and increasing the amount of required disclosure, we can mitigate their consequences, both in the public and the private sector.
But it would also demonstrate to old and potential new creditors alike not only a capacity, but also a willingness, to make payments, thereby creating incentives for external actors to support economic recovery.
Rich countries have provided generous subsidies and other incentives for increased bio-fuel production, while poorer countries encouraging bio-fuel production have provided far fewer market-distorting incentives to farmers.
We conjectured that even though random discoveries, weather events, and technologies might dramatically shift relative values for certain periods, the resulting price differentials would create incentives for innovators to concentrate more attention on goods whose prices had risen dramatically.
That created a system of asymmetric incentives – also know as moral hazard – which encouraged ever greater credit expansion.
The first is a global commitment to cut greenhouse-gas emissions through smart, efficient fiscal and economic policies and regulation – including carbon pricing, reduced fossil-fuel subsidies, incentives, and performance standards.
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