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Policymakers could look at tax incentives, including credits in key areas.
Moreover, differential rewards do indeed create incentives for people to learn, work, and innovate, activities that promote overall growth and advance poverty reduction.
In this case, the focus must be on expanding profit-sharing arrangements, without stifling or centralizing market incentives that are crucial to drive growth.
Indeed, on many issues – for example, energy, climate change, and financial stability – China and the US have strong incentives to cooperate.
Slimmed down welfare states would not only help reduce unemployment in rich countries, but also reduce incentives for restricting the numbers of immigrant workers and students from poor countries -- places that would benefit from remittances and repatriation of know-how.
But as real wages in China and other emerging economies grow, incentives for trade will decline.
In order to begin to cure today’s maladies, incentives are needed for firms to borrow and to expand their operations.
These imbalances develop as a result of a hands-off approach to capital-account management, based on the assumption that capital-market incentives and growth strategies are always aligned.
Give people the incentives to plan for their future, ownership-society advocates argue, and they will.
America has many people who do not set up 401(k) accounts, despite enormous incentives to do so.
Unlike 1960’s-vintage industrial policy, modern PDPs aim to correct market failures, not do away with market incentives.
One reason officials in the Philippines have cooperated so readily in carrying out Duterte’s policy is that doing so includes financial incentives that go far beyond the payments police have reportedly received for executing the president’s “war on drugs.”
In 1977, the US created the Department of Energy (DOE); a year later, it enacted the National Energy Act, which employed tools like industrial regulation and tax incentives to promote fuel efficiency and renewable energy.
While this system does provide incentives for certain kinds of research by making innovation profitable, it allows drug companies to drive up prices, and the incentives do not necessarily correspond to social returns.
It is therefore essential to de-link R&D incentives from drug prices, and to promote greater sharing of scientific knowledge.
This mechanism should also provide financial support for structural reforms through “limited, temporary, flexible, and targeted financial incentives.”
As mothers, women have evolutionary incentives to maintain peaceful conditions in which to nurture their offspring and ensure that their genes survive into the next generation.
Higher dividends from state-owned enterprises could help to finance such an initiative, while removing incentives for overinvestment.
For these countries, forming a megafund to test a few hundred compounds could be a much better bet than seeding biotech startups or offering incentives to big pharmaceutical firms.
In addition to direct investment, governments can also create incentives for the formation of these kinds of funds – for example, by guaranteeing bonds issued for biopharma research.
Rich countries are places where investors feel secure in their property rights, the rule of law prevails, private incentives are aligned with social objectives, monetary and fiscal policies are solidly grounded, risks are mediated through social insurance, and citizens have recourse to civil liberties and political representation.
For instance, China provided market incentives through two-track economic reform rather than across-the-board liberalization, which is usually the standard advice.
In China circa 1978, the constraint was the absence of market-oriented incentives.
But the benefits of such incentives for pharmaceutical companies would far exceed the cost of the actual R&D pursued; they would be instruments to funnel public funds into private hands – the very hands that caused the problem.
Over time, antibiotics could become more profitable again, as engaged companies sell more of their other drugs and the need for costly incentives diminishes.
A requirement of explainability of algorithmic decision-making can change incentives, prevent blackboxing, help make business decisions more transparent, and allow the public sector to catch up with the private sector in technology development.
It continues to be a “standard setter” in a world with strong incentives to evade standards and negligible sanctions for doing so.
In both cases, the defecting insurgents said the same thing: they could recruit dozens more; they just need incentives.
Governments hammering out a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol at the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen later this year should adopt strong incentives to cut greenhouse-gas emissions.
If CCS is to fulfill its potential, companies need incentives to invest and a way to make money.
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