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Markets may not provide incentives for wealth creation; they may provide incentives for the kind of shenanigans Enron pursued.
While we will never be able to prevent all abuses, we can get the incentives right.
There are other sources of tax revenue in many developing countries that are both more equitable and distort economic incentives far less than VAT.
Communities in the Amazon have suffered grievously from the economic incentives to cut down the rainforests.
The political challenge for Rousseff’s administration is to channel those savings to new public investment or to tax incentives for private investment, rather than adding to current expenditures.
The Rousseff administration is also creating incentives (subsidies, directed credit, and even some new import tariffs) aimed at developing certain sectors.
We yielded to short-term incentives, and everything seemed to conspire to push us to accepting excessive risks.
The country’s rapid progress is attributed to strong manufacturing exports, carried out by firms that were able to compete in global markets only with the help of government incentives.
Furthermore, governments should offer subsidies or tax incentives to companies that invest in the skills that humans master better than machines, such as communication and negotiation.
This misalignment of incentives stifles many economies.
By contrast, the French government is right to call for measures to improve employment and development opportunities for Roma in their countries of origin (primarily Bulgaria and Romania in this case), which would reduce the incentives and pressure for them to move to other countries.
Instead, policymakers must find ways to strengthen the incentives for parents to send their daughters to school.
On the first question, one hypothesis is that new digital technologies are changing the structural incentives for corporations, political parties, and other major institutions.
In the US, where most undergraduates bear at least part of the cost of their university education, political pressure is mounting to provide incentives like tuition discounts or loan forgiveness to students of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (the so-called STEM fields).
And it promised to support the positive convergence of developing and developed countries, thereby reducing both absolute and relative poverty and weakening economic incentives for illegal cross-border migration.
Yet the emerging policy consensus contains no positive incentives to resolve the Darfur crisis.
What is required, first and foremost, are market-based incentives to induce Americans to use less energy and to produce more energy in ways that emit less carbon.
But Bush has neither eliminated massive subsidies to the oil industry (though, fortunately, the Democratic Congress may take action) nor provided adequate incentives for conservation.
Coalition members could also agree to provide stronger incentives to their own producers, through either more stringent caps on emissions or higher taxes on pollution.
This calls for a major training effort, support for mobility, incentives to accept job offers, and the opening of sheltered sectors.
Teaching morality and values in business schools will not tame such behavior, but changing the incentives that reward short-term profits and lead bankers and traders to take excessive risks will.
Other tensions may erupt without the unifying incentives of power.
This prospect gives incentives for both alliances to stay together.
It generates the information and the incentives to respond to it.
European companies could be given tax breaks or other incentives to establish assembly plants in Nigeria, thereby creating jobs in the region and further expanding Africa’s consumer base.
But the field’s credibility is also being undermined from within, by the growing prevalence of scientific misconduct – reflected in a recent spate of retracted scientific publications – and an increasingly unbalanced scientific workforce that faces perverse incentives.
The incentives associated with the winner-take-all system encourage cheating – ranging from questionable practices and ethical lapses to outright misconduct.
Now, with perverse incentives undermining their credibility and hampering research, scientists must take matters into their own hands.
So incentives targeted directly at preserving employment will have to be part of the solution.
Reintegration and reconciliation, which are meant to offer incentives to insurgents to switch sides and perhaps join Afghan security institutions or nominally pro-government militias, are seen as being driven by military logic, rather than representing an honest dialogue between the state, the insurgents, and ordinary Afghans.
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