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The phrase "positive sanctions" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to methods of positive reinforcement that encourage and reward desired behavior. For example, "To encourage efficiency in the workplace, the company instituted a system of positive sanctions, including bonuses for outstanding performance."
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Negative sanctions are actual or threatened punishments, whereas positive sanctions are actual or promised rewards.
Examples of positive sanctions include preferential tariffs, subsidies, foreign aid, investment guarantees, and preferential taxation of foreign investment.
Conforming behavior is rationally chosen in order to avoid negative sanctions or to attract positive sanctions.
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Punishment (negative sanction) and reward (positive sanction) regulate conduct in conformity with social norms (see norm).
From positive growth, sanctions have reduced GDP growth to —5% in 2013.
"Less than half of 1percenttestst positive and require sanctions".
Economic statecraft takes many different forms, including both positive and negative sanctions.
Norms may be internalized i.e., incorporated within the individual so that there is conformity without external rewards or punishments, or they may be enforced by positive or negative sanctions from without.
It continues: "Iain Duncan Smith, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, is ultimately responsible for the actions of those in his department, who produced the propaganda leaflet containing lies, presenting a fantasy of positive stories about sanctions.
Van der Berg et al. (2004) report significant positive effects of sanctions.
Van den Berg et al. (2004) report significant positive effects of sanctions.
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