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I should also note that the [discretionary] spending, which is about 19 percent of the budget, that is Democratic and Republican issues, so you do have welfare, food stamps, other programs that tend to be popular among Democrats, but you also have the farm bill and all sorts of Department of Interior inducements for oil drilling and other things, which tend to be popular among Republicans.
To collect more data, firms might offer users inducements beyond the putatively free services they already provide, and that may or may not slow down the pace at which they can enhance services or add newfeatures.
These inducements can be made more attractive by the prospect, held out by the Commission, that some countries may join as early as 2003.
And diplomacy – both sanctions and inducements – has failed to stop the North.
Then they entice doctors with inducements and giveaways – including trips, toys, fishing hats, and, in one case, a music CD called “Get in the Swing with OxyContin” (one of the most popular opioids) – to prescribe them.
Previously, North Korea was offered economic and other inducements to give up its nuclear weapons.
Instead, Syria’s rulers are offering inducements to ensure that key constituencies remain in line – laptops for teachers, subsidies for public-sector workers, and empty reformist rhetoric.
To that end, Mahathir should move to tackle the root causes of radicalization with economic and political inducements.
An alternative approach, giving positive inducements to a tyrant to leave office, might work in some circumstances.
This approach reflects Obama’s commitment to using inducements to coax the Pakistani military to persuade the Taliban to agree to a peace deal in Afghanistan.
For example, he offers significant financial inducements to individual jihadis, as well as their families, in return for political obedience.
Judging by Trump’s campaign rhetoric, and by statements from his Republican allies, environmental protection in the US will be gutted in a frenzy of deregulation and inducements for domestic oil, coal, and gas producers.
But the decentralized, dispersed nature of many industries, the absence of an effective regulatory infrastructure, and the lack of firm-level inducements undermine the effectiveness of this approach.
China’s tariffs declined precipitously in the late 1990’s, and many of the other inducements were also phased out.
A generous visa regime and the use of regional development funds in Ukraine that will benefit impoverished eastern Poland, are two possible inducements.
The EU must therefore offer inducements that outweigh pressure from Russia.
Such inducements are not hard to find: greater access to Europe's common market, more favorable visa regimes, job and immigration opportunities, access to capital, cultural contacts, and technical assistance.
But public officials are less likely to succumb to illegal inducements if they are paid well, and in proportion to their responsibilities and opportunities for malfeasance.
When I introduced the concept of soft power in 1990, I wrote that it is characterized by voluntarism and indirection, while hard power rests on threats and inducements.
Moreover, concluding a deal requires credibility with respect to both inducements and punishments.
But there are also compelling economic and political inducements toward cooperation that prevent these rivalries from developing into full-blown crises.
Through a mix of inducements and intimidation, he prevailed on the heating and cooling firm Carrier to keep some of its operations in Indiana, “saving” around 1,000 American jobs.
The European Union’s multiple offers of political and economic inducements went nowhere, as did cajoling by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
These include a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse-gas emissions, subsidies for research and development on sustainable technologies, feed-in tariffs and regulatory incentives for renewable energy, consumer subsidies and other inducements for the uptake of new “green” technologies, and implementation of “green” infrastructure programs, such as mass transit.
And, as in companies, intrinsic rewards, challenges, competitions, and the like are often more effective inducements than money.
Additional voluntary separations could be encouraged by modest inducements to subsidize job searches.
It has taken three decades of subsidies and other inducements for renewable energy and electric vehicles to catch up.
Aid groups insist that payments are not inducements; in reality, poorly remunerated journalists cannot easily tell the difference.
But there also need to be “pull” incentives (rewards for outcomes), such as market-entry inducements or volume guarantees to bring new treatments from start to finish.
The US should also offer Iran some inducements, including limited sanctions relief.