Last week, the Brazilian senate passed a measure that grants fiscal incentives to the nuclear power industry.
Trying to raise birth rates is difficult because people's fertility does not seem to respond much to fiscal incentives.
It argues against using fiscal incentives to promote particular patterns of family life.
What was left included tax breaks for home improvements and fiscal incentives for companies to hire highly qualified staff, along with measures to boost energy efficiency and ease credit for small firms.
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"If the huge scale of the environmental challenges facing us is to be addressed, environmental taxes and fiscal incentives will need to play a far larger part that they currently do, " add the MPs.
Addressing "some important issues like fiscal incentives, reducing cost of credit and transaction costs will help Indian exporters become more competitive, " said Sanjay Budhia, chairman of a panel on exports set up by lobby group Confederation of Indian Industry.
Some of the issues that need to be addressed, he says, are the lack of any tax on aviation fuel, fiscal incentives for alternative-fuel vehicles, and the need for a carbon tax to replace the government's ill-directed climate-change levy.
Although emerging markets have generally offered a hodgepodge of regulatory and fiscal incentives to lure emigrants back home, these efforts have largely failed--no surprise, since most emigrants quickly become acculturated to their new countries and create personal and professional ties there.
While Alex Salmond was big on the impact of more programme-making spend, including fiscal incentives under the powers he wants to see move to Holyrood, it's on funding and content that his speech left us waiting for further announcements next year.
Interest rates could come down as early as the first quarter of 2012, with the new leadership offering up targeted fiscal incentives for small and mid-sized companies to encourage job growth as the economy slows from 10%-plus growth to around 9% next year, according to International Monetary Fund GDP forecasts.
If this budget agreement scores badly on long-term fiscal prudence and incentives to growth, it fails miserably on other basic tests of good fiscal policy.
Governments need to bind themselves to credible fiscal rules that provide incentives for good behaviour.
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But the Greeks need stronger incentives to endure the pain of fiscal consolidation.
It should be replaced with market-oriented reforms that actually address the pernicious incentives now driving Medicare off a fiscal cliff.
First, Bernanke-style policies "weaken incentives for politicians to pursue structural reforms, including fiscal reforms, " he says.
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So Mr Cavallo is trying to combine fiscal orthodoxy with looser monetary policy and a bundle of investment incentives.
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