Sentence examples for perverse outcomes from inspiring English sources

Targets are a crude managerial tool that can lead to perverse outcomes.

"Revenues flowing through incapable or corrupt structures will give you perverse outcomes," she said at the Washington conference.

It has in effect turned the entire German energy industry into a quasi-planned economy with perverse outcomes.

Again, the experience of Switzerland is discouraging, because it shows that choice in health insurance can lead to perverse outcomes.

It is also important to make sure that in the drive for results we don't create incentives with perverse outcomes that are to the detriment of development.

"I think the encouragement of debt through the tax system rather than equity has remarkably perverse outcomes," says the former Labour City minister Lord Myners.

Dorrell says it was "clearly a perverse outcome".

As crime prevention, that's a perverse outcome.

"The laws create a perverse outcome," he says.

However, Leeds have responded with amazement at today's decision, labelling it a "perverse outcome".

Avoiding this perverse outcome is of critical importance to climate policy".