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Some argue that higher taxes on the wealthiest taxpayers -- particularly the marginal income tax rate of 39.6percentt and the estate tax -- are destructive of the incentive to create more wealth.
She said one of the most effective actions government could take would be to withdraw incentives that support destructive practices in areas such as agriculture, fishing and forestry and instead encourage sustainable behaviour.
Reversing climate change sounds, to me, a lot like trying to overcome HIV/AIDS -- at the heart of the struggle is psychology and politics: changing the behavior of individuals who feel untouched by an issue, changing the behavior of politicians who have electoral incentives to encourage destructive behavior.
The influx of short-term programmes within unequal incentives were described as ' destructive' and ' damaging', and threatening the integrity of long-term CHW programmes - both government and NGO-supported - and subsequently, health system strengthening as a whole.
It is important to realize that though self-destructive, these are normal behaviours where individuals are responding to prevailing incentives.
We should see executives like Jack Welch for what they are: often talented but self-interested competitors whose behavior must be regulated, and whose incentives must not be designed to encourage illegal, immoral, or socially destructive acts.
To be sure, they note, lack of transparency, lousy incentives and psychological factors contribute to market problems and to the destructive result, a misallocation of capital and a painful correction.
Incentives to land managers would induce farmers to adopt farm practices which are less destructive but maintain agricultural lands thus creating business relationship between sellers and buyers of ecosystem services in proxy (Pagiola et al. 2005).
Welfare recipients remained very poor, the incentives the system gave them were horrible, and the lessons implicitly taught about responsibility and opportunity were destructive.
