In addition to depressing program impact, such rules can also discourage participation by the most capable donors and nonprofits.
Mr Habibie's administration has tried to discourage separatism by drawing up a new law which devolves more power to the provinces.
But even assuming Hollywood can discourage piracy by cutting prices and offering its content in different ways, since when do we tell crime victims to appease their tormenters?
However, the UK government took the view that these borrowings are inherently risky, and wanted to discourage them altogether by taxing them.
Cheap currencies boost exports, but discourage domestic spending by making imports dearer.
Americans are far less likely to get behind such sweeping environmental and economic policy, which is designed to discourage fuel use by making energy more expensive.
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We discourage undesirable behavior primarily by levying fines and otherwise making it costly to engage in it.
The existing laws discourage foreign investment, by allowing non-Iranians only 49% of the shares in any venture and no right to own property.
The law attempts to discourage employers from dropping coverage by forcing those who do to pay a penalty.
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Hospitals, long pampered by policies that discourage competition, are nowadays also beginning to find out what people really think of them.
We dodged barricades put up by residents to discourage looters and around piles of bricks from homes newly damaged from aftershocks.
Recently, however, following an attempt by Congress to discourage unhappy shareholders from bringing law suits in federal courts, there has been a sharp rise in such cases at the state level.
Higher tax rates, by contrast, discourage people from generating more income.
The bank says its desire to do more business with low-income borrowers has been thwarted by banking regulations that discourage high-risk lending.
Virtually all pioneers acknowledge that there are risks related to being a first-mover. (I personally believe that the perils are overstated by those who would discourage free-thinkers.) Many innovators nevertheless remarkably choose to persist in their quest to change the world undaunted.
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Ministers should introduce rules requiring companies to publish financial information on a country-by-country basis to discourage cross-border tax evasion, the report said.
And that starts by changing senseless rules that discourage displaced workers from getting the education and training they need to find and fill the jobs of the future.
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New cars are subject to a stiff tax ranging from 40% to 60% of the base price, a surcharge imposed by the local government to discourage road-system gridlock.
There was also its adoption and endorsement of a patent regime meant to discourage innovations from being used as legal ammunition by non-innovators.
He also suggested that the potential threats posed by contact with alien intelligence should discourage us from actively sending out messages to the cosmos.
Given the character of this organization, the transparent purpose of this initiative by this particular group was to discourage Americans from responding as the so-called "John Does" did.
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It tries to weaken labour unions, both public and private, by encouraging legislators to pass bills that discourage them.
But the real risk is not that the Greek claims, boosted by the new Acropolis Museum, will discourage lending programmes between museums.
To add to the protection afforded by capital controls, it will surely discourage the idea that the yuan's appreciation will be steady and speedy.
Regulations discourage many restructuring and updating actions that might be taken by good management.
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And the preferential treatment received by the ECB on its Greek bonds will discourage other investors from holding sovereign debt.
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He wanted interest rates kept low to discourage the hoarding of money and encourage consumption and, by extension, full employment.
It said the previous Labour government had introduced a policy of "forced destitution" by cutting benefits for asylum seekers in order to discourage others from applying.
When the tourism industry asked for help, Cowperthwaite responded by taxing hotels to recover costs and to discourage other petitioners.
This is largely due to high regulatory costs that discourage new housing supply, particularly the single-family homes preferred by most families.
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