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Discover LudwigThe phrase "perverse policy" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a policy that goes against common sense or is contrary to what is expected. Example: The company's new perverse policy of only promoting employees who are willing to work overtime has caused frustration and burnout among the staff.
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This seems a perverse policy.
It reads: "the most 'cost-effective' projects may be the least 'additional' and strict project additionality would give perverse policy incentives".
So what has the Morrison government's energy minister, Angus Taylor, done with those largely sensible suggestions to come up with this perverse policy?
Meanwhile, this faith in markets has lead to the perverse policy of carbon trading as a means of dealing with climate change.
There is a risk of a ripple effect as their customers start to move, too.In recent months efforts to keep a lid on companies' power costs have led to even more perverse policy shifts.
"It is difficult to imagine a more misguided or perverse policy than diverting the benefit of charity, given in the aftermath of tragedy, from the injured party to the party causing the harm," wrote Bruce S. Kaplan, the synagogue's lawyer.
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But overfishing is not so much the inevitable result of population growth as the outcome of perverse policies.
Healthy economic growth doesn't have to be supported by government and, ideally, is not frustrated by perverse policies.
Entitlement reform must also address the perverse policies that keep less-skilled workers trapped in low-growth regions.
Without being able to appeal to an absolute intuitive exclusion of such malicious desires or of perverse policies that were motivated by these desires, Deweyan naturalism argued that such desires would not meet the criteria for acceptance as norms.
Such perverse policies havent been pursued since the early 1930s, when governments thought that raising taxes and devaluing their currencies was the way to combat the worsening slump.
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