Sentences with phrase «right policy incentives»

A few years later, Schmidt - Bleek, who founded the Factor Ten Institute in France, showed that raising resource productivity even more — by a factor of 10 — was well within the reach of existing technology and management, given the right policy incentives.

Not exact matches

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Let me briefly mention a few steps that could be taken to increase the economy's potential over time — immigration policies that attract workers with scarce skills to the United States; education policies and job retraining programs that build and replenish human capital; spending on infrastructure to remove bottlenecks; tax simplification and the elimination of tax policies that distort investment and saving decisions; regulatory policies that are attentive to costs and benefits and that emphasize getting the incentives right.

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The following benefits are not subject to the HP Severance Policy, either because they have been previously earned or accrued by the employee or because they are consistent with Company Practices: (i) compensation and benefits earned, accrued, deferred or otherwise provided for employment services rendered on or prior to the date of termination of employment pursuant to bonus, retirement, deferred compensation or other benefit plans, e.g., 401 (k) plan distributions, payments pursuant to retirement plans, distributions under deferred compensation plans or payments for accrued benefits such as unused vacation days, and any amounts earned with respect to such compensation and benefits in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan; (ii) payments of prorated portions of bonuses or prorated long - term incentive payments that are consistent with Company Practices; (iii) acceleration of the vesting of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units or long - term cash incentives that is consistent with Company Practices; (iv) payments or benefits required to be provided by law; and

If those guys are largely right about the incentive factors that would then come into play (and especially if Americans were moderating their economic libertarianism with devotion to family, virtue, community, and God, as your work would urge them to), then by no means would that cause the social welfare policy disaster most liberals assume it would.

One might think of these policy ideas as instruments that seek to institute a right to capital indirectly, by means of supposedly helpful incentives and / or targeted assistance.

With the right policies and incentives, Vasquez suggests, each of these two problems might hold at least a partial solution to the other.

We are closer to getting the incentives right in higher education, as it is mainly regulated by private accrediting agencies rather than by state policy.

Getting these incentives right can make Course Access policies an R&D engine for new educational paradigms, while radically expanding Course Access for students whose current alternative is nothing at all.

We also anticipate continuing discussions regarding prioritizing best policies and best actions for students and creating and utilizing the right incentives and accountability systems to improve student achievement, increased educational quality, graduation rates, and capital and technology needs.

Encourage local policymakers to «right - size» leave privileges and initiate incentive policies designed to reduce levels of teacher absence.

The dramatic rise in shale - gas extraction and the tight - oil revolution (mostly crude oil that is found in shale deposits) happened in the United States and Canada because open access, sound government policy, stable property rights and the incentive offered by market pricing unleashed the skills of good engineers.

In the medium to long term, with innovation, market incentives, and the right policies, we can transition to different fuels, different infrastructure, higher efficiency, and different technologies.

It adds: «To unlock these benefits, the private sector needs clear and credible long - term policy frameworks that provide the right incentives.»

The project assessed how the companies in passenger and freight transport comply with the European users rights protection legislation shielding theses parties against travel delays, cancellations and / or disruptions, and in case of gaps in conformity, propose new guidelines for cross-modal alignment of decision - making, capacity planning and reserve - building models at transport service and infrastructure providers in addition to incentive structures and policy instruments for more effective legislation enforcement.

Deployment policies must play a key role in creating markets for clean energy, but we must ensure that those markets have the right structure and offer the right incentives to demand and reward continual improvements in the price and performance of clean technologies.

I explained the key provisions of the contract, including all of the charges and the right to adjust the premium payments, and I showed her that the declining surrender charge created a big incentive to keep the policy for at least a few more years.

Remember that our insurance experts are on salary, unlike those at most insurance providers, so they have an incentive to answer all of your questions patiently and get you the right policy.