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A system of border taxes – imposed on imports from countries where firms do not have to pay appropriately for carbon emissions – would level the playing field and provide economic and political incentives for countries to adopt a carbon tax or emission caps.
That, in turn, would provide economic incentives for firms to reduce their emissions.
The scarcity of savings in the region reflects the weak incentives embedded in poorly designed tax and pension systems.
Indeed, Chinese policymakers seem unable to grasp the importance of crafting appropriate incentives and disincentives.
In fact, perverse incentives throughout the supply chain facilitate the widespread, systematic contamination of food and drugs.
These measures helped China establish modern, advanced industries, but resources were misallocated and incentives distorted.
Researchers today face the wrong incentives, which results in the failure to translate findings into meaningful action for research participants.
They therefore have strong incentives to evaluate financing requests carefully, and to assist borrowers in bad times, thus reducing the pressure to sell assets at “fire-sale” prices and minimizing the likelihood of financial contagion.
More important, Russia’s state-capitalist model has led to weak competition and declining incentives for private investment and entrepreneurship.
We subsequently shifted our focus to the “hardware” of economic development, intensifying work on the construction of roads and energy facilities and creating incentives for foreign direct investment in mining, fishing, agribusiness, and real-estate development.
But the absence of credible carbon price signals, along with the perverse incentives created by fossil-fuel subsidies, continues to hold back the investments and technologies needed to drive a low-carbon transition.
In a more fragmented fashion, states established incentives for energy efficiency in residential and commercial buildings.
Because of these destructive incentives, Eastern Germany, Sinn argues, will remain a region of chronic unemployment, much like Italy's Mezzogiorno, which has been a drain on Italian finances for decades.
In the longer run, a system of good incentives must be created to change people's expectations of economic success and increase their opportunities to "learn by doing."
A key goal is to moderate the incentives for US multinationals to “shift their profits to tax havens."
They would instead become more attractive targets for foreign acquirers and would have even stronger incentives to move their headquarters, R&D, and future intellectual property to lower-tax jurisdictions with territorial systems.
This marks a sea change in the global structure of incentives with respect to achieving sustainability.
They are too big to be free riders, so the incentives relating to sustainability are becoming internalized as national priorities.
The emergence of sustainability as a critical element in growth strategies in the worlds’ future largest economies is an extraordinarily positive development, because national needs, goals, and priorities remain much more powerful incentives than international agreements.
As Asians drive growth toward more sustainable patterns, they will increase the incentives for others to do so by generating new technology, lowering the environmental cost of growth, and undercutting the argument that leadership incurs competitive and other economic costs, but few benefits.
The international community can support these efforts by providing incentives to countries that choose freedom and progress.
The challenge for the EU is how to get back to the point where it is once again creating incentives for progress, rather than sowing disillusionment and the possibility of regression.
The recent experience with visa liberalization shows that the EU has the power to motivate serious reforms in weak states if it mobilizes the right incentives.
Talent, innovation, and entrepreneurship will inevitably capture the lion’s share of the income being generated, and efforts to redistribute wealth can only be counterproductive, because they weaken the incentives that drive an economy forward.
Prolonged low interest rates and quantitative easing have created incentives for investors to take inadequately priced risks.
Governments can create incentives to innovate, encourage research, and break down international barriers.
The good news is that, at a deep level, incentives across advanced and developing countries are aligned.
With peace, and the prospect of doing well in July’s parliamentary election, in which it has agreed to participate, Hamas would have powerful incentives to transform itself from an armed movement outside the system into a political party committed to competing for power at the ballot box.
By offering incentives such as value-added-tax exemptions, the law has encouraged cooperatives and other agricultural organizations to collaborate and create economies of scale.
In this case, too-big-to-fail financial institutions had perverse incentives: if they gambled and succeeded, they walked off with the profits; if they lost, the taxpayer would pay.
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