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"perverse incentive" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English
It refers to a situation where an incentive or reward intended to encourage a certain behavior or outcome ends up having the opposite effect. Example: The company's policy of giving bonuses to employees who met their monthly sales targets created a perverse incentive for them to engage in unethical sales practices.
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Here we have a perverse incentive".
But by grading more uniformly, Wellesley removed this perverse incentive.
But that, its opponents argue, would create a perverse incentive.
The Gwent chief confessed to a "perverse incentive" to mendacity.
They say the program may provide a perverse incentive for banks to foreclose.
"A perverse incentive has been created," said tax campaigner Richard Murphy.
This gives the offending party in a dispute a perverse incentive to threaten to call in the courts.
For rebels, it creates a perverse incentive to escalate ethnic violence so as to provoke an international military response.
Competition for contracts between rival exam boards, which created a perverse incentive for some to offer easier options, will go.
Ministers say the current system shouldn't offer a perverse incentive for illegal migrants to prolong their stay in the UK.
The United States system creates a "perverse incentive system" to reward companies for bringing complaints, the Europeans said.
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