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Governments, they believe, are run by crooks, so tie their hands; bureaucrats are beholden to rent-seeking private agents, so ensure non-discretion and apply uniform taxes and incentives; domestic political systems cannot be trusted, so import laws and institutions from abroad; external influences are always more benign than domestic ones, so ensure maximum openness to international trade and investment; reformers have a limited "honeymoon period," so implement reforms fast.
Private incentives always need to be aligned with social costs and benefits if productive efficiency is to be achieved.
Similarly, the principle that private incentives should be aligned with social costs and benefits hardly results in unconditional support for policies of trade liberalization, deregulation, and privatization.
The weakness of the current wage insurance proposal is that it pays benefits only for a limited period and relies for its long-term effect on the retraining incentives that it creates.
As the world’s leading power, the US sets the tone of cooperation and often provides the incentives for other countries to participate.
Emphasizing exports may in itself enhance the Palestinian economy's growth potential by increasing incentives to innovate, invest, and reduce inefficiencies.
Second, in the debate about fiscal consolidation and structural reform, Western economies have not yet achieved the right balance of deficit reduction, incentives for innovation, and macroeconomic stimulus, but there are signs of change coming from Brussels.
There is a pool of about 300 million graduates to build on, and, according to solid evidence, they react to changes in economic incentives with respect to their location choices.
The government should take the weak ten-year projection as a warning and a reason to devote policies to reducing fiscal deficits and strengthening incentives for growth.
To the contrary, by excluding different types of financial incentives based on different abilities, it deepens the cleavage between rich and poor, between big cities and provincial towns and villages.
And yet creating incentives for people to improve their lot is what drives broad-based prosperity.
This must include incentives to stimulate private-sector investment – especially in new, environmentally-friendly technologies and labor-intensive economic activities – and collaborative industrial policy to strengthen economic diversification in developing countries.
The fundamental contradiction, as these examples show, is between the goals of the reform process and the incentives that underpin them.
Developing countries need to ensure reliable property rights and policy enforcement in order to generate the incentives needed to protect nature in the future.
Tax incentives are now used in China to encourage employer plans for retirement saving.
Behind closed doors, governments wield financial incentives and regulatory powers to mute media criticism and twist editorial content in their favor.
Creating a level playing field on energy taxation in the EU would harmonize economic incentives, eliminate gas-tank tourism by drivers crossing borders for lower prices, and improve the business climate in all of Europe’s economies.
For example, Germany has successfully promoted recycling with a combination of smart regulations and incentives, such as machines at supermarkets that return deposits in exchange for bottles (often brought in by the poor).
For starters, incentives that reward companies for remaining small, inefficient, and informal should be removed.
The way to create incentives not to shirk is to pay workers above the market wage, making the loss of a job more costly.
With short- and long-term interest rates so low, mortgage-credit restrictions seem to have a limited effect on the incentives to borrow to purchase a home.
Financial and asset-management institutions can provide positive incentives to such companies – those that incorporate sustainability, long-term thinking, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance criteria in core business models – by allocating assets accordingly.
Add to that financial-market incentives, and huge amounts of capital could be attracted to ESG investments.
We need to change the standard business model so that incentives and priorities align with responsible corporate citizenship.
America's membership in a web of multilateral institutions ranging from the UN to NATO may reduce US autonomy, but seen in the light of a constitutional bargain, the multilateral ingredient of America's current preeminence is a key to its longevity, because it reduces the incentives for constructing alliances against the US.
Costa Rica has just approved a law promoting electric trains, and legislators are debating a bill to provide incentives for electric vehicles and buses.
For China, that probably means ratcheting up economic incentives on North Korea to change its nuclear policies.
With public entities like the social security system and sovereign-wealth funds holding more diversified asset portfolios, incentives would be substantially reduced for market intervention favoring incumbents in which the state owned a large share.
To that end, it must balance its imports and exports, while leveling the playing field for foreign corporations operating within its market by eliminating the incentives for local governments to compete for FDI regardless of cost, or to engage in other forms of undue intervention.
One of the more radical ideas we discussed during the Review concerned financial “pull” incentives to reward firms that successfully develop new drugs.
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