The Poverty of Stimulus

And this would give savers less of an incentive to search for yield, thus avoiding financial instability.

With a slowdown in accession negotiations, Turkish politicians will have less incentive to continue the reforms necessary for membership.

Incentives are distorted.

The Bogey of Fiscal Stimulus

At this low price, companies have little incentive to cut back on their CO2 emissions and little faith that a market based incentive will return.

America needs a big stimulus package.

Monopolists may have much less incentive to innovate than they would if they had to compete.

Moreover, since farmers who do have access to formal credit will have less incentive to repay their loans, banks will become more reluctant to lend to any farmers at all.

But the stimulus effect of quantitative easing is far less certain than even that of fiscal stimulus.

The true measure of the success of the stimulus is not the actual level of unemployment, but what unemployment would have been without the stimulus.

But there are fewer and fewer of them. )

It is a matter both of incentives and social justice.

Castro believes in giving farm workers greater incentives.

Less effort, you're less persistent, and so on.

Second, it removes the incentive for banks to make bad decisions.

The alignment of incentives lies at the heart of modern financial theory.

Poor argued that such a mechanism would provide credit rating agencies with less incentive to compete with one another, pursue innovation, and improve their models, criteria, and methodologies.

That's why in comparison to 20 years ago we have fewer disqualifications, fewer executions, fewer political prisoners, and less poverty!

For a president bent on implementing reforms, less can be more less aggressiveness and less ego.

Indeed, local governments appear less afraid of Beijing s bite than before.

So, you're putting in less juice, and therefore the outcome fewer puzzles solved.

It is often said that the world is becoming smaller and smaller.

The other basic instrument includes economic incentives and disincentives.

The Asian economies have been particularly aggressive in the use of such incentives.

The employers initially trusted the employees to work hard without specific incentives, and quickly learned that, without such incentives, many employees would shirk.

Use less paper.

This book is smaller.

5 is less than 8.

Japan is smaller than Canada.

Make it smaller.

Make it smaller.

Make it smaller.

The earth is smaller than the sun.

The number of students is dropping.

A third is less than a half.

Less is more.

The others weren't so lucky.

We're outnumbered three to one.

You're smaller than me.

You're smaller than him.

You're smaller than her.

One third is less than one half.

A currant is smaller than a strawberry.

It's getting smaller.