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Without major reform of all security and military forces - reforms that provide incentives for individual officers to show initiative and take responsibility - Russia's war on terror will remain one-sided: the terrorists will be doing all the attacking.
Yet, given rapid progress on artificial intelligence, and the multiple incentives for making computers even smarter, Musk sees no way of preventing that from happening.
Women can play an important role as governments implement incentives and regulations that support the transition to a sustainable and inclusive economy.
While subsidies need not be eliminated completely, they should be targeted at smaller-scale farmers or other high-need workers and redesigned so that they, too, provide incentives for water conservation and efficiency.
Deflation --a steady ongoing decline in prices-- gave businesses and consumers powerful incentives to cut spending and hoard cash.
It reduced the ability of businesses and banks to service their debt, and might trigger a chain of big bankruptcies that would destroy confidence in the financial system, providing further incentives to hoard.
Such strong incentives to hoard rather than spend can keep demand low and falling, and unemployment high and rising, for a much longer time than even the most laissez-faire-oriented politician or economist had ever dared contemplate.
The incentives to make use of the new directive will be especially strong for East Europeans.
Developing-country firms – often encouraged by their governments, through procurement and fiscal incentives – are increasingly working climate risks into their business strategies.
Smart policy can help us to overcome short-run constraints, deeply entrenched behaviors, and social norms, and to develop innovative financing instruments that change incentives.
And financial professionals’ skills and incentives will have to be retooled and revised to reflect these new priorities.
By foregoing prices in allocating healthcare, the Dutch have taken the economic incentives for extending life away from the country's physicians.
Indeed, because extending the lives of ill old people can be very costly, the economic incentives run in the opposite direction in the welfare state.
Meanwhile, savers are being repressed, asset prices distorted, and incentives to maintain or even increase leverage enhanced.
If so, creating a similar opportunity today could change the incentives, trigger the required complementary reforms, and put the global economy on course to a stronger long-term recovery.
Nearly every industrial sector that, according to the stimulus package, deserves direct and immediate government support is energy-intensive and polluting (cement and steel, for example) or heavily managed by the state sector, and therefore missing incentives to balance growth with environmental protection (as is the case with the oil industry).
The United States’ Affordable Care Act, which entered into force this year, contains further variants on the idea of government as a catalyst, including incentives to reward health-care systems that improve outcomes and reduce costs.
The incentives have spurred a number of state-level experiments in Medicaid (America’s health-insurance program for the poor) through waivers of the standard rules.
For starters, the Trump administration could offer stronger incentives for foreign investment in major sectors like automobiles and infrastructure.
A combination of military force, political incentives, and economic growth that benefits the wider population can begin to bring an insurgency to heel.
In particular, we believe that three areas – technology, incentives, and seemingly “non-health” investments – have the potential to advance universal health coverage dramatically.
Harnessing the power of incentives is another way to accelerate health reforms.
Instead, we must push public health systems beyond their usual boundaries by investing in and promoting new technologies, sharpening incentives, and recognizing that health systems do not exist in a vacuum.
But this approach would not only leave German taxpayers on the hook; it would also create perverse incentives in the entire European banking system, maximizing instability.
And studies in Japan indicate that higher population densities create stronger incentives for individuals to become entrepreneurs; a 10% increase in population density increases the share of people who wish to become entrepreneurs by approximately 1%.
A 2010 report by the African Development Bank also identified abusive transfer pricing and excessive tax incentives as the main source of the problem.
Out of control tax incentives are another source of the problem.
Many African governments, desperate to attract foreign-direct investment, engage in an ill-informed race to offer the most generous tax incentives.
The reason for this resilience is probably best understood not as the consequence of poor law enforcement but of the profitability of slavery, which generated incentives too strong for laws to contain.
The implication is that the dwindling of slavery today and its potential further reduction may depend on market rather than legal incentives.
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