Sentence examples for perverse impacts from inspiring English sources

"One of the most perverse impacts," Dr. Salins said, "is that increasingly under regulation the rents being paid bear little or no relationship to the quality of the apartment.

Aid sceptics, such as William Easterly and Dambisa Moyo, have made a powerful case against not only the waste and perverse impacts of many misguided projects, but also the patronising and disempowering assumptions of "northerners" seeking to shoulder a new "white man's burden".

However, for incentive based regulation to deliver the desired outcomes it needs to be implemented in a comprehensive manner (both in terms of substance and process), or at least in a considered way, with any deviations from standard approaches understood in terms of the potentially perverse impacts or incentives that might arise.

Among the more perverse impacts of sanctions has been to encourage Khartoum to look for friends elsewhere.

Is there the potential for perverse impacts on HIV spread from scale up of circumcision?

I end with a wonderful example of the perverse impact of "the cuts".

The Age of Stupid's neglect of these realities could have a perverse impact on the yet-to-be-persuaded filmgoer.

The net change represented an insignificant part of trading activity in these stocks over the 17-day period.The SEC's action was not only pointless; it may have had a perverse impact.

This sorry news had the perverse impact of raising BBVA's core capital by about €400m because it increased the losses it can set aside against tax on future profits.Other banks are using similar techniques to boost capital.

Introducing stricter guidelines designed to persuade defendants to plead guilty earlier in the court process could have a perverse impact and encourage more to go to full trial, the committee's report suggests.

It is now widely accepted that monetary policy has reached its limits, and may, via the effect on savers, be having a perverse impact on attempts to boost demand.