Sentences with phrase «economic incentives from»

The regional economic development councils were formed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration as a way of applying for grants and other economic incentives from the state.

They are more likely to support economic incentives from the government to encourage Canadian companies to set up operations in Asia, and initiatives to facilitate trade and investment missions for Canadian companies to visit Asian countries.

Not exact matches

The Memphis City Council voted on Oct. 3 to offer the tax breaks for the company's headquarters, possibly in addition to incentives from the development agency Economic Development Growth Engine, Shelby County and the state.

We need to stop the zero - sum game where regions merely pull jobs from each other with expensive, unproductive tax incentives and call it economic development.

It's time to stop the zero - sum game where regions merely pull jobs from each other with expensive tax incentives and call it economic development.

There are definitely some «low - hanging fruit mechanisms» that platforms like Facebook and Google can use, boyd says, including cutting off the economic incentive for fake news by blocking certain sites from ad networks.

Furthermore, without the economic incentive that comes from licensing an invention, inventors would reduce their efforts or completely stop producing new ideas.

Despite the misaligned incentives, Oclaro has still grown economic earnings from - $ 151 million in 2013 to $ 90 million TTM.

Amazon has been awarded more than $ 40 million in economic incentives for warehouses in Florida, mostly from cities and counties.

AT&T acquiring Time Warner «doesn't add anything to the marketplace, and it risks subtracting from the marketplace if they (AT&T) act rationally on their economic incentives after the acquisition,» he said.

Thus, the holders of Series A are indifferent between sale prices from $ 50M to $ 60M, which may lead to the same odd economic incentives as the non-participating preferred stock, albeit at higher transaction values.

Training grants, revenue grants and real estate tax abatements are a few of the economic incentives the city offers start - up businesses which have helped hundreds spouted up in Jacksonville or relocate from other states.

Thus, the holders of Series A are indifferent between sale prices from $ 10M to $ 20M, which may lead to odd economic incentives.

Both states announced multimillion - dollar economic incentive packages last week designed to keep plants in their states from closing.

The higher prices for gas, electricity and gasoline that will result from the crisis will provide economic incentives to support the moral imperative to do all we can to protect the environment.

But the absence of economic incentives to fight AIDS might make an observer feel, apart from any moral, sectarian or theological considerations, that a religious revival alone can save South Africa from eventually consigning perhaps a third of its population to death.

The absence of economic incentives to fight AIDS might make an observer feel, apart from any moral, sectarian or theological considerations, that a religious revival alone can save South Africa from eventually consigning perhaps a third of its population to death.

He found the suppliers, including Cussons, had «strong economic and commercial incentives to transition early as possible» because of the significant cost savings and the prospect of improved margins from ultra concentrates.

Roland G. Fryer, Jr., «Aligning Student, Parent, and Teacher Incentives: Evidence from Houston Public Schools,» NBER Working Paper 17752 (Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2012)

Jonathan Guryan, James S. Kim, and Kyung Park, «Motivation and Incentives in Education: Evidence from a Summer Reading Experiment,» NBER Working Paper 20918 (Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2015)

You don't have to be an expert in public choice theory to understand that when the government owns companies that directly benefit from economic distortions, the incentives to remove those distortions are pretty low.

Perverse economic incentives: Incarceration has become big business, from prison unions protecting lucrative jobs, to companies being given monopolies within the prison system (Until the FCC stepped in, there were instances of charging over $ 1 a minute for calls).

State lawmakers, business and real estate developers as well as local preservation advocates gathered Thursday to send a united message to Governor Andrew Cuomo: do not remove from the budget a tax incentive they say is critical to continued economic redevelopment.

A Centre for Economic Performance report by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) found there had been an incentive effect for those teachers gaining above - average performance related pay, but that this was offset «by a more widespread demotivating effect arising from difficulties of measuring performance fairly».

Muller received tax breaks and incentives from the Genesee County Economic Development Center and Empire State Development to open the plant.

But their arrival also drew criticism from Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi, a Democrat from Utica, because the state offered economic incentives to the brewery even though the tanks were made in China.

So, for seniors, there is an economic incentive to maximize their purchasing power by living in places with a low cost of living, and to stay in places with low housing costs if they already living in houses in those areas, because their income does not depend upon where they live (unlike non-seniors who earn less in rural areas removing much of the benefit from a lower cost of living).

In an election year defined by angry populism, Clinton made an optimistic economic pitch in Detroit on Friday, presenting a wide - ranging plan for job growth that would provide incentives for corporations that invest in employees and strip tax benefits from companies that move jobs overseas.

Now that I can throw this incentive on it working with our economic development partners from the Empire State Development Corporation were going to put together an incredible package that's going to be very hard to say no to,» said Hochul.

The article also cited research from the Citizens Budget Commission, a nonpartisan government watchdog group, that likewise found more than $ 8 billion spent each year on economic development incentives in New York state.

Today, Quinn fields questions posed via - e-mail from Jim Heaney of Investigative Post on what ails local economic development efforts and what he thinks of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to invest $ 1 billion in state incentives to revitalize the region's economy.

It also provides many economic incentives for intellectual property developed and licensed from the country, such as patent royalty exemption and a research and development tax credit.

«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.

«We know a lot about how to reduce emissions from smokestacks and tailpipes and agricultural runoff,» he added, explaining that it's not a question of how to do it but that it requires personal, political and economic incentives.

Lead researcher Harriet Condie, from UEA's school of Environmental Sciences, said: «We took into account data such as catch and discard figures from fishing trawlers, fish prices and landing costs, to calculate whether banning the practice of discarding will offer enough of an economic incentive to fish sustainably.

For example, the researchers found many instances where the comprehensive plans included tax incentive policies to stimulate economic development in hazardous areas even though the local hazard mitigation plans identified the same areas as experiencing severe repetitive losses from hazard events and qualifying for federal funds for buyouts.

This study shows that although miscanthus yield was slightly lower on marginal, low - quality land, a farmer would have an economic incentive to grow miscanthus on the lower quality land first rather than diverting their most productive cropland from growing corn,» said University of Illinois agricultural economist Madhu Khanna who co-authored the study along with a team of economists and environmental and crop scientists from the Energy Biosciences Institute at U of I.

As usual, the most effective solutions lie with those least likely to implement them: the nations and organizations benefiting from the perverse economic incentives.

«REDD + [Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation] and similar carbon reduction projects... have given me hope because they provide financial incentives to protect chimpanzee habitat, and thus an alternative to the many economic pressures to destroy it.

Although it is absolutely necessary to change the economic incentives if land is to be managed as an ecosystem, what I want to suggest is that the definition of a PES as well as of ecosystem valuation needs to take into account that services from ecosystems have very different characteristics from a loaf of bread.

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.

Most likely, funding for this research will come from a foreign government agency, in a country with universal health care which has economic incentives to make a healthier pill.

From an economic perspective, online dating websites have a greater incentive to make sure they match up just enough couples to appear appealing but not so many that they pair off their base.

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

«We find that aggregating results from multiple studies across different cultural, economic and political contexts suggests that incentive pay, as argued by merit pay advocates, offers a promising strategy,» the Vanderbilt study concludes.

We know from a variety of economic, psychological and management studies that people are highly responsive to incentives, even those that do not necessarily have individual rewards or sanctions linked to them or that may merely accord some form of public recognition (or shame) based on the results.

If the ultimate cause of the problem was distortion from economic incentives, you have to ask yourself, «What is the economic incentive and how can we address it to reduce or eliminate it?»

Tourists, primarily from the US and Europe, are unknowingly providing an economic incentive for unsustainable practices that threaten both the industry and the very whale sharks themselves.

Businesses, for instance, have large economic incentives to exploit or develop cheap land — land which could provide a protective barrier from storm surge or which could be a flood plain that would put a proposed residential area at future risk.

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