Sentences with phrase «creating economic incentives»

These pension plans reward longevity with an employer, creating economic incentives for high - quality teachers to stay in the profession.

In creating economic incentives for research that shows little or no medical promise (especially compared to the ethical alternatives), Obama's policy is bad science.

Other suggestions include altering the physical environment, creating economic incentives to select healthier items or even adding express lines for more nutritious food.

Seattle lawyer Bill Marler, who represents children and families in lawsuits over food - borne illness, said the database «will create an economic incentive for companies to have better safety records.

«Mandatory insurance for all home - owners would reassign the costs for damage within a framework of solidarity, while the premium rebates would create economic incentive for private mitigation measures to tackle elementary damage such as flooding, severe rainfall and snow pressure,» prompts Prof. Reimund Schwarze from UFZ as food for thought.

If the price on carbon is high enough to penalize coal consumption, the theory is it creates economic incentives to retrofit coal plants or use gas or wind power to generate electricity.

The real issue seems to be that the shift in liability does not create an economic incentive for payment processors to convert their systems.

On the plus side, looking at anaerobic digestion for example, you are creating an economic incentive to collect and utilize food waste — and you are therefore making measures like San Francisco's mandatory composting laws more economically viable, and politically palatable.

A price on carbon will create an economic incentive to reduce emissions from the electricity, heating, and transportation sectors, and will also create a revenue stream that can be used to fund programs needed to implement the Clean Energy DC Plan.

A carbon fee will create an economic incentive for suppliers to provide their customers with electricity from renewable sources, to complement the existing regulatory mandate created by the RPS.

The need is to create economic incentives for communities that will then mandate and / or encourage diversion of materials from MSW.

«If you create an economic incentive to avoid deforestation,» he says, «people will find a way to measure, monitor and verify it.»

Simply improving messaging in accordance with recommendations of psychologists or following the recommendations of economists to create economic incentives to engage in less GHG producing behavior will not likely create strong citizen support for climate change policies unless citizens better understand that the narrative created by opponents of climate change policies about high levels of scientific uncertainty and unacceptable harm to the economy from the adoption of climate policies is not only false but has been manufactured by fossil fuel companies and other entities which have economic interests in continuing high levels of fossil fuel consumption.

My own research (published elsewhere) says raising taxes (stepped, not instantaneous) on liquid transportation fuels (not all carbons) to roughly European levels creates economic incentives to change before there is pain.

To help meet that goal, California is implementing numerous measures, including standards for renewable energy, a policy to scale up the use of clean fuels, requirements and incentives to increase the use of electric vehicles, and a flexible market - based cap on carbon emissions that creates economic incentives for major carbon polluters to cut their emissions.

The Court's findings are significant as it may create an economic incentive for compliance with international social and environmental law and a recognition that the EU is trading on the basis of conditionality.

They wrote that the tort system provides deterrence of non cost - justified accidents, and creates economic incentives for «allocation of resources to safety.»

Not exact matches

He says the actions of central banks «attempting to spark economic growth» are «severely punishing the world's savers and creating incentives to reach for yield, pushing investors into less liquid asset classes and increased levels of risk, with potentially dangerous financial and economic consequences.»

Regardless, the price on emissions creates a decentralized economic incentive to reduce pollution.

«But my beat is going to be more about networked media or democratized media — platforms and networks, misinformation and the economic incentives for creating different types of content.»

Execs have little incentive to act in the best interests of their companies because of the way they are paid, creating an ugly economic chain reaction.

«It clearly is going to create artificial incentives to engage in transactions that have no economic purpose other than to reduce taxes,» says Looney.

Economic development incentives don't create jobs as much as they shift them around, pitting communities against one another for who can pony up the most corporate welfare.

North Korea's motivation for creating a cyber-warfare division has to do with economic incentives; Pyongyang needs money, especially as the international community is tightening its grip on the Hermit Kingdom's cash flow over its continued missile tests.

They also show that officials never shared their worries with the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., whose whole reason for being is to use tax breaks and taxpayer - financed incentives to help retain and create jobs.

Every compensation for an economic disadvantage, it is argued, creates an incentive for people to become or remain disadvantaged.

To arrest population growth the Chinese regime created a program of mass «ideological education» and a system of economic incentives to encourage people to have fewer children.

The primary mission of the Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) is to offer economic incentives to Tompkins County businesses in order to create and retain quality employment opportunities and strengthen the local tax base.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a HUD secretary in the Clinton cabinet, created the 10 regional economic development councils as a way of stimulating job growth by having various regions of the state compete for grant money and tax incentives.

«the compensation system for federal judges in the United States creates a very powerful economic incentive to retire at a reasonable retirement age by virtue of how the defined benefit pension plan works, that most judges assent to not long after reaching that age.»

But, the compensation system for federal judges in the United States creates a very powerful economic incentive to retire at a reasonable retirement age by virtue of how the defined benefit pension plan works, that most judges assent to not long after reaching that age.

Krueger recalled that the ill - fated Empire Zones program, which was created by former Gov. George Pataki in 1999 (it actually morphed out of the New York State Economic Development Zones) ended up being an ill - conceived boondoggle that gave away millions of dollars worth of publicly - funded incentives and tax breaks to businesses that pledged to create jobs and then often didn't make good on those promises.

Robert Pasinella, executive director of the Rensselaer County Industrial Development Agency, which awards tax breaks to encourage economic growth, told The Alt on Monday that he had had a preliminary discussion with Bryce about a potential incentive package related to the building, but had said that any financial assistance would depend on dollars invested and jobs created and that he'd need to see the project.

Pataki created a series of Empire Zones statewide, which served to spur economic growth in cities by providing tax incentives for businesses.

If you live in a society that creates incentives and rewards innovation in a way that allows everyone to participate in economic opportunities and there is ACCOUNTABILITY in all levels then foreign interests and in extend who actually governs are irrelevant in the big picture of prosperity.

Other surveys, such as this one by the Committee on Economic Development demonstrate support for reform is also strong in the business community; 72 percent are in favor of creating a public financing system that would match low - dollar contributions and give average citizens more incentives to contribute to campaigns.

During these difficult economic times this is an important tool to help create the incentives needed for critical capital investment and the creation of jobs.

These groups fail to see that when we have structures that skew incentives against productivity, transparency, long term economic and social planning, excellence and logic, as we have in Nigeria today, then creating the right incentives will entail redesigning our governance structures and reprogramming ourselves.

H5N1 infections in pigs are uncommon and cause only mild illness, creating little economic incentive to monitor them.

That, they say, will remove the economic incentive to artificially create excess pollution.

Mann said the U.S. needs to implement incentives to create a greater gulf between CO2 emissions and economic growth.

REDD + Offset Working Group (stateredd.org) was established in February 2011 as a result of a Memorandum of Understanding signed in November 2010 as part of a collaborative effort between the Governors of California, Chiapas and Acre to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (known as «REDD +») and create policies to provide economic incentives for forest conservation by placing a value on living forests and their ecosystems.

A recent «Policy Memorandum» from the Economic Policy Institute («Making Mountains Out of Molehills: Do Teacher Pensions Create «Peculiar Incentives» for Retirement?»)

At the same time, increased public and elite concern about the effect of underperforming schools on national equity and economic competitiveness has created new political incentives for policymakers to embrace innovative approaches to teacher quality and school reform generally.

And a convoluted tale it is, involving the country's wealth of natural resources (coal, iron, copper and water for powering machines and transporting goods), the comparatively high literacy rate that enabled common folk to educate themselves in science and technology, a patent system that protected the rights of inventors and gave them economic incentive to both create and refine devices, and a population large and wealthy enough to form a profitable market for products the new industries turned out.

This creates a strong economic incentive, with fake authors — Sharazade thinks it's possible they are organized gangs based in Asia — earning 70 % royalty rates on every sale, earning far more than a spammer could with click fraud.

Itemized deductions were created as a social - engineering tool by the government to provide economic incentives for taxpayers to do certain things, such as buy houses and make donations to charities.

Yes, the Government of Belize strongly supports Foreign Investment in Belize and offers many incentives to investors focused on making investments that will create employment opportunities for Belizeans, will earn foreign exchange or be export - oriented, will make good use of Belize's resources with preservation for the future, will introduce and utilize state - of - the - art technology, and will expand Belize's economic base and offer exposure to new markets.

What economic incentive is there to create the agri - chemical supply chain?

I have a feeling a program like this would create a bigger environmental win and the right financial incentives versus a tax where the economic incentives of the stakeholders are not aligned.