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The increased international competition associated with globalization may also contribute to overall prosperity, as it strengthens incentives to adopt new technologies and to innovate.
At the same time, the need to counter the economic crisis and fight climate change, together with an array of fresh incentives, new directives, and scientific breakthroughs, will lead to substantial progress toward “greening” agriculture, industry, transport, construction, energy, and so on.
Official intentions often remain just that; time and again, political leaders find it easier simply to keep in place the existing system of rules, incentives, and guarantees.
All candid accounts indicate their internal incentives are not much changed, and restrictions on their activities are unlikely to prove effective as global growth picks up.
These countries should be given incentives to maintain their forests.
Without such a program, unfortunately, developing countries have neither the means nor incentives to underwrite conservation.
Compensating the developing countries for providing these environmental services would be one way of substantially increasing aid – and at the same time, providing these countries with the right market incentives.
Fundamental tax reform must strengthen incentives, reduce distorting “tax expenditures,” and raise revenue.
There are efforts underway to create such a framework, but much more needs to be done to create the right incentives for businesses to participate.
And they have promised to explore how market incentives can be used to encourage new research.
We urgently need more resources to monitor resistance, stronger incentives for R&D, and innovative financing mechanisms to ensure widespread access to accurate diagnoses and quality medicines.
Government investment in protecting these natural assets was essential, which meant eliminating subsidies for the cattle industry and perverse incentives for agrarian reform.
With subsidies and negative incentives gone, Costa Rica’s cattle population dropped by a third, taking pressure off grazing lands.
This policy has the effect of rendering fossil fuels economically uncompetitive – and creating incentives to use Costa Rica’s nearly 100% renewable power in the transportation sector to cut our dependence on oil.
A moratorium on oil and gas exploitation, respected by five different governments, reinforces these incentives.
As a result, an enormous amount of goods are spoiled in storage, while production incentives are misdirected.
The result is a further decline in the price of oil and larger incentives for consumers to buy gas-guzzlers and drive more.
Most importantly, drawing on reforms first implemented in Germany, England, and France, workers' compensation statutes provided compensation for injured workers and created powerful incentives for employers to reduce accident tolls.
Compensation awards to injured workers and their families are pitifully low and fail to give employers incentives to make their workplaces safe.
Policies that extend social services and create new economic and entrepreneurial incentives for rural communities are key.
As a result, they are finding it hard to “pay for” the tax cuts with any reduction in tax expenditures (incentives for various activities such as corporate borrowing, mortgage financing, or retirement saving).
Moreover, inter-vivos transfers have a direct negative impact on GDP, distorting the incentives for young workers that receive part of their resources from redistribution, and not as compensation for productive work.
Moreover, it is more than a debate about public policy, because, in the post-crisis world, market incentives might point toward forms of separation between retail and investment banking.
But market incentives surrounding various business models will remain distorted so long as taxpayers are liable for bank losses.
By simultaneously encouraging China’s entry into the World Trade Organization and other institutions, we created incentives for good behavior.
The country's economy remains based on a faulty system of incentives.
For decades numerous work incentives were developed and maintained in the Soviet economy, whereas consumption incentives were totally and intentionally highly suppressed.
But during market reforms the traditional suppression of consumer demand and lack of work incentives stood in the way of a sharp increase in labour productivity.
After all, by capping spreads, the buyback facility would limit the downside risk while providing incentives to hold the bonds and wait for the upside – a good reason, perhaps, to make the facility a temporary offer.
China’s population of 25-to-64-year-olds, by contrast, faces a possible fall from 930 million to 730 million, driving up real wages and creating powerful incentives for high investment in automation.
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