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The community is provided with financial incentives to construct and maintain very basic household latrines.
Hence the incentives of the NDB’s prospective creditors and borrowers are happily aligned.
In contrast to development finance, the incentives of potential lenders and borrowers are not aligned.
There are several reasons why so much perishable food is lost, including the absence of modern food distribution chains, too few cold-storage centers and refrigerated trucks, poor transportation facilities, erratic electricity supply, and the lack of incentives to invest in the sector.
This may reflect a lack of incentives: while identity fraud resulting from such breaches is tiresome and time-consuming to resolve, any financial pain is ultimately borne by banks and credit card companies.It is a different world of pain when our biometric data is compromised, because unlike our usernames or passwords, biometric data cannot be reset.
This may reflect a lack of incentives: while identity fraud resulting from such breaches is tiresome and time-consuming to resolve, any financial pain is ultimately borne by banks and credit card companies.
New formal rules can conflict with established norms, causing bureaucratic incentives to become distorted, with adverse effects on institutional behavior and performance.
Key Arab actors in the Middle East have lately been more forthcoming than ever before in offering incentives to Israel to move toward peace with the Palestinians.
But if all firms cut wages simultaneously, the resulting weakness of overall demand undermines companies’ incentives to invest, in turn depressing productivity growth.
The alignment of incentives lies at the heart of modern financial theory.
It could, for example, split full-time jobs into multiple part-time positions, and offer incentives for workers to reduce their hours.
The belief that boosting equality requires sacrificing economic efficiency is grounded in one of the most cherished ideas in economics: incentives.
A free-trade agreement with the US and improved access to EU markets might be powerful incentives that the West can offer to Egypt’s young democracy.
Rather, Hu would have determined the level of Kim’s readiness to resume, what preconditions and incentives are at play, and what room for maneuver exists, given the position of the other parties.
Ironically, those who are caught often blame their misconduct on competition, pressure to publish, and recognition and prizes – the very practices and incentives that the scientific community introduced and fostered.
A single European asylum process would remove the incentives for asylum shopping and rebuild trust among member states.
At first glance, the logic of negative economic incentives seems sound.
Not only have oil prices themselves failed to spur a reduction in consumption; they have undermined incentives to develop alternative energy sources.
Yet another problem with the price-based approach to mitigating climate change is that it fails to account for markets’ potential to create perverse incentives.
The final reason why negative incentives alone are inadequate to mitigate climate change may be the most irrational: after some years of rising taxes, the public is staunchly opposed to any policy that may increase energy prices, regardless of whether current prices are high or low.
While an approach based on such positive incentives would be costlier than tax hikes in the short run, the long-term benefits can hardly be overstated.
Moreover, MGI estimates that addressing barriers like mandatory retirement ages and perverse tax incentives could add about 200 million workers over the age of 65 to the world’s labor pool.
It is not necessary, because what really works in practice is removing successive binding constraints, whether they are supply incentives in agriculture, infrastructure bottlenecks, or high credit costs.
That is a pity, because economists’ understanding of the substantive issues, professional obsession with incentives, and attention to unanticipated consequences give them a natural advantage in designing institutional arrangements to further the objectives in question while minimizing behavioral distortions.
While some pharmacologists dedicate their lives to searching for the cure for cancer, regardless of any monetary incentives, many are driven by the hope of securing a lucrative patent.
To balance the budget only by taxing the rich will require a significant increase in income taxes, to the point that it would lower incentives for work and entrepreneurial activity considerably.
Private actors also have informal incentives to curry favor with China’s rulers by behaving in CPC-friendly ways.
When the foreign share of debt grows, so do the political incentives to impose the costs of that debt on foreigners.
That is the mechanism that reduces the incentives to expropriate the creditor, and makes debt secure and cheap.
The particularly high domestic shares for R&D and compensation indicate that US multinationals have strong incentives to keep their high-wage, research-intensive activities in the US – good news for America’s skilled workers and the country’s capacity for innovation.
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