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Obaidullah carried a $1 million reward and was the most senior Taliban captured since November 2001.
They might reward journalists for toeing the official line, using financial or other kinds of bribes.
Planned economies were never able to flourish because uncertainty about the future is just too high, something that is best left to the speculators, with the potential of reward if they are right and the disciplining whip of the market if they are wrong.
More broadly, the UN culture must change – perhaps with a new reward structure – to give priority to operations in the field, rather than to operations at headquarters; to implement reports’ recommendations, rather than just writing more reports; and to measure results on the ground, rather just counting the number of UN conferences held.
Stock options reward executives generously even when shares rise because of a price bubble – and even when comparable firms’ shares are performing better.
What risks do you see emerging should Russia’s economy continue to decline, with Putin increasingly unable to reward his political base?
A forest carbon facility can reward forest conservation as a means of protecting the climate while also preserving ecosystems and generating income for poor communities in developing countries.
If inequality is perceived to be the result of just reward for individual effort, it can be a constructive signal of future opportunities.
Reducing inequality will require long-term, comprehensive solutions, such as fiscal-policy reforms that reward public investment in health and education without adding disincentives to an already cumbersome tax code.
Its current-account surplus was its just reward for hard work.
To a world that is still reeling from the aftermath of the 2008 crisis, with its lurid revelations of malfeasance in the financial and real-estate industries, such high-profile projects look like another fix designed to reward a corrupt elite.
The Emir of Qatar paid a visit to Gaza as a reward for Hamas’s break with Iran and left a check.
When it functions well, it balances risk and reward, and innovation and safety.
While the incentives in other postcommunist countries, primarily East European, nowadays reward local officials when they promote business growth, the incentives facing Russia’s bureaucrats work in the opposite way.
When investments are in upstream basic research, the spillover effect across industries and sectors is sometimes enough of a social reward.
The hope is that markets will reward virtue, which is defined as austerity.
To deter fraud, governments should reward whistleblowers, and protect them from retaliation.
Eventually, excessive inflation may erupt, or credit growth may slow, rather than accelerate, if banks – faced with very low net interest-rate margins – decide that risk relative to reward is insufficient.
But, until US and EU regional policies are in sync with their aid programs, the aid will be seen, yet again, as a reward to corrupt officials for playing nice with their neighbors at a heavy cost to their citizens.
To defend against this onslaught, the West should promote media freedom, reward accountability, and provide legal avenues to shut down systemic disinformation channels.
An administration of plutocrats – most of whom gained their wealth from rent-seeking activities, rather than from productive entrepreneurship – could be expected to reward themselves.
Second, there is no political reward for fighting a preventive war, while there is great political capital to be earned by acting after problems have exploded.
That is why it is so important for prizes and professional associations to be used not to reinforce mainstream perspectives, but rather to encourage independent thought and reward innovation.
Yet, despite this momentum, no government has announced any plans to finance a market-entry reward.
Clearly, now is the time to introduce a market-entry reward.
Assuming that everyone is on board, I would propose that instead of expecting the government to put up the whole $1 billion for a market-entry reward – and in order to avoid inviting a revocation of industry-friendly regulations – British pharmaceutical companies should come together to contribute 50%.
A second explanation is that sexual violence is either made available as a reward for fighters, or tolerated because it cannot be controlled.
A well-designed progressive federalist policy for higher education would set goals for key performance indicators – based on the measures highlighted in the College ScoreCard – and reward states that advance toward those goals.
Putin’s view is that democracy results from a modern economy, a kind of reward for hard work.
For products that drug companies register with the Health Impact Fund, corporations would get the same reward for saving the lives of Africans living in extreme poverty as they would get for saving the lives of wealthy citizens of affluent nations.
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