"material incentives" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to incentives, rewards, or benefits that are tangible, rather than intangible, or something that can be perceived with the senses. For example, "Employees were offered a range of material incentives for meeting their goals."
This is his opposition to material incentives.
His "new man" would be motivated by moral rather than material incentives.
Che Guevara's dream of creating a "socialist man" motivated by moral rather than material incentives has long been abandoned.
A successful career in academia, after all, requires willingness to be critical of yourself and to learn from experience, along with a lack of interest in material incentives.
Guevara was a more doctrinaire ideologue than Castro and a fervent critic of "material incentives" but in death he became transformed into an icon of daring and rebellion.
Recognising the importance of material incentives is important, Noland said, adding: "That earlier reform attempt was full of contradictions and was badly implemented and failed.
This combination of high-level rhetoric and material incentives encourages district health officials to be more data-driven in their work – something which should be replicated.
Another faction in the party took the failure of the Great Leap as proof that China must rely more on expertise and material incentives in developing the economy.
That's why Mr. Gal beckoned a few hundred Northwestern students to test whether we also might salivate to distinctly material incentives, notably money and sports cars.
Adherence to racist ideologies can be mightily assisted by material incentives; as motives for inhuman violence and oppression, the factors need not be opposed and very often can hardly be distinguished.
THE secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, and the special envoy to the region, Richard Holbrooke, suggest that victory in Afghanistan is possible if the Taliban who pursue self-interest rather than ideology can be co-opted with material incentives.
