Hugo Cabieses, an adviser to farmers in Peru's coca areas, argues that alternative development can work only if it is linked to government price supports and subsidised credit.
Newmont Mining, for instance, established a novel dividend policy (linked to the price of gold), and is expected to increase their quarterly dividend by 25% this July as a result.
He also pointed out that Nigeria does not have many commuter railways, so people have little choice but to use motorcycle and minibus taxis, whose prices are closely linked to the price of petrol.
"That way you have a nice mix of share-price-linked short-term rewards and long-term involvement with the company, " he says.
Some retailers say that there have already been price rises linked to the cash changeover and there will be more.
You see, the company has an innovative mechanism called a gold-price-linked dividend.
The EIU report linked the climb to price volatility (inflation has reached 20 percent) and fixed exchange rates to the U.S. dollar.
They get their income from dividends, not from the issue of new shares or from a fancy incentive scheme linked to the share price.
Apply the savings to all programs linked to the consumer price index -- Social Security, government retirement, income tax brackets -- and it's big money.
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Mr Shiller himself has been involved in launching derivatives linked to home-price indices for both large and small investors, but with limited success to date.
Another reason for the increase can be linked the collapse in the price of PV panels over the last two years.
One option is to buy funds that hold Treasury inflation-protected securities, or TIPS, whose returns are linked to the consumer-price index.
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Pipelines remain costly to build, and a buyer has to be found and a price (generally linked to that of oil) agreed on before construction can start.
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Ofcom decided that the price limit would be linked to the rise allowed for regular second-class stamps.
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Members of the public are being asked to report any suspicious activity to police, who believe the thefts are linked to the rise in the price of copper.
"The share price can partly be linked to the belief that Simon is going to do something, and something big, " said Harm Meijer, a senior analyst at J.
Simpler, more transparent compensation will be more tightly linked not just to the stock price of a company, but also to its overall health--as measured, for example, by market share, product quality, and customer satisfaction.
OPEC's desire to force the oil price up is almost certainly linked to the falling dollar.
Rewards linked to a company's share price should probably be triggered only if the firm outperforms the market as a whole, or an industry peer group.
Constantine von Hoffman, CBS Moneywatch, said in his column that only seven of 13 states struck by the storm had laws against price gouging, but he linked to a 2006 survey that is out of date.
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The financial meltdown has certainly undermined two of the big ideas inspired by Messrs Jensen and Meckling: that senior managers' pay should be closely linked to their firm's share price, and that private equity, backed by mountains of debt, would do a better job of getting managers to maximise value than the public equity markets.
In the U.K., index-linked gilts adjust for movements in the Retail Price Index (RPI) and are similar to their American cousins, Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS), which track the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
Using data from 1973 for developed countries, and a shorter series for developing ones, Mr Jacobsen and his colleagues found that oil-price changes and stockmarket returns are linked but lagged: if oil prices rise, shares do fall, but not right away.
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Scientific publications on genes linked to obesity and other ailments continued to juice the stock price.
BarCap created its first CD linked to gold last September, with a five-year yield based on gold's quarterly price performance.
Yet bosses typically had their pay linked to short-term movements in share prices, which encouraged them to take measures to push the share price up quickly, rather than to maximise shareholder value in the long run (by when they would probably have departed).
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