Articles for Financial Incentives

Ukraine to offer financial incentives to boost military recruitment among 18-25-year-olds
2 months ago

Ukraine to offer financial incentives to boost military recruitment among 18-25-year-olds

The Independent  

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Budget 2025: What women taxpayers can expect
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Budget 2025: What women taxpayers can expect

India Today  

As India gears up for the Union Budget 2025, women taxpayers are hopeful of policies that recognise their growing financial participation and empowerment. A BOOST TO WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS With the rise of women entrepreneurs and their growing contribution to the economy, the Union Budget 2025 is expected to introduce tax reliefs that encourage female-led businesses. Ridhima Kansal, Director of Rosemoore, …

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Why is Russia paying students in cash to have babies?
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Why is Russia paying students in cash to have babies?

Firstpost  

Russia is facing a demographic crisis with its birth rate hitting a 25-year low. To combat this, the government is offering financial incentives, including cash payments to young mothers and stricter abortion regulations Russia's President Vladimir Putin meets with patients as he visits the new children's clinical centre named after Leonid Roshal outside Moscow, Russia, August 21, 2024. These policies …

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India's path to a greener future
4 months ago

India's path to a greener future

Hindustan Times  

India, as one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, has been at the forefront of the global debate on climate change and sustainability. Under this scheme, businesses will be mandated to limit their emissions or purchase carbon credits from more efficient firms, driving significant sectors like power generation, cement, and steel--responsible for a substantial share of India’s emissions--to participate …

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Opinion: By Making Emission Cuts A Moneyspinner, India’s Carbon Credit Trading System Will Prove A Gamechanger
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Opinion: By Making Emission Cuts A Moneyspinner, India’s Carbon Credit Trading System Will Prove A Gamechanger

ABP News  

By Utkarsha Pathak and Ritwik Bahuguna India, as one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, has been at the forefront of the global debate on climate change and sustainability. CCTS In Action – Impact Across Industries Under the CCTS, businesses will be mandated to limit their emissions or purchase carbon credits from more efficient firms, driving significant sectors like …

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Electric vehicles: What can the UK government learn from Norway?
6 months, 1 week ago

Electric vehicles: What can the UK government learn from Norway?

The Independent  

The UK’s transition to electric vehicles is a critical component in the government’s strategy to combat climate change and achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Additionally, the government has introduced tax incentives, such as the benefit-in-kind tax rate, which is currently set at a favourable two per cent for electric company cars. SMMT has called on the government to halve …

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Japan is offering financial incentives for single women to move out of Tokyo
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Japan is offering financial incentives for single women to move out of Tokyo

The Independent  

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‘Misperception stops healthcare providers from prescribing life-saving ORS for child diarrhoea’
10 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Misperception stops healthcare providers from prescribing life-saving ORS for child diarrhoea’

The Hindu  

Misperceptions of healthcare providers has been identified as one of the major reasons why Oral Rehydration Solution, which could be a live-saving treatment in diarrhoea cases, is not being prescribed in India for children who suffer from diarrhoea, according to a study. With randomised controlled trials, the researchers tested the effects of three main reasons – misperception of providers, financial …

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EU moves on clean technology: Subsidies up, free market down
2 years ago

EU moves on clean technology: Subsidies up, free market down

Associated Press  

BRUSSELS — The European Union presented plans Thursday to fundamentally revamp its policies on promoting green technologies and dealing with critical raw materials, imposing limits on imports from countries like China while unleashing subsidies and other financial incentives to ramp up home production. The plans by the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, are essential in moving toward a climate …

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W.B. Budget for 2023-24 broadens welfare schemes, gives incentives to jobs
2 years, 1 month ago

W.B. Budget for 2023-24 broadens welfare schemes, gives incentives to jobs

The Hindu  

With an eye on the upcoming panchayat polls, the West Bengal government’s Budget for the year 2023-24 on Wednesday widened the ambit of social welfare schemes like Lakshmi Bhandar, added a new scheme providing death benefits for fishermen, promised financial assistance for micro-enterprise and allocated ₹3000 crore for rural road connectivity and repair of urban roads in the State. Minister …

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What states and territories are doing to help Australians buy electric cars
3 years ago

What states and territories are doing to help Australians buy electric cars

ABC  

Australian drivers are increasingly keen to make their next car electric, but high prices and the limited range of available models are keeping many from making the switch. To do this, NSW has introduced financial incentives for people to buy an EV, including: A $3,000 rebate for EVs bought for less than $68,750 — limited to the first 25,000 vehicles …

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Maharashtra to give financial incentives for new oxygen-making units
3 years, 10 months ago

Maharashtra to give financial incentives for new oxygen-making units

India TV News  

Maharashtra to give financial incentives for new oxygen-making units Maharashtra Government has approved a special financial incentives package for industries setting up new oxygen manufacturing plants, a senior official said on Friday. Maharashtra Government has approved a special financial incentives package for industries setting up new oxygen manufacturing plants, a senior official said on Friday. The state government decided to …

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Assam Govt to Give Scooters, Financial Incentives to Girl Students: Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma
4 years, 2 months ago

Assam Govt to Give Scooters, Financial Incentives to Girl Students: Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma

News 18  

The Assam government will give scooters and financial incentives to girl students to ensure that they attend classes regularly, Education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. The state government was currently distributing 22,000 two-wheelers to Class 12 girl students who passed in the first division from the state board under the Pragyan Bharti Scheme, he said at Sivasagar on Sunday. The …

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Queensland Government moves to buy stake in coronavirus-hit Virgin Australia
4 years, 10 months ago

Queensland Government moves to buy stake in coronavirus-hit Virgin Australia

ABC  

The state-owned Queensland Investment Corporation is set to make an official bid for a stake in Virgin Australia after the airline went into voluntary administration last month amid the coronavirus travel restrictions. Key points: The State Government's bid for Virgin could be a direct equity stake, a loan, a guarantee or other financial incentives The State Government's bid for Virgin …

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Farmers willing to go green with financial incentives: study
5 years, 1 month ago

Farmers willing to go green with financial incentives: study

NL Times  

Farmers are willing to take steps towards nature-inclusive agriculture, but only if there are the right financial incentives, according to a study by the Netherlands' environmental assessment agency PBL and the VU University Amsterdam among 950 members of farmers' association LTO, and another 150 farmers not associated with LTO. The survey showed that 58 percent of LTO members have already …

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Does it make sense to pay people to have kids?
5 years, 5 months ago

Does it make sense to pay people to have kids?

BBC  

Does it make sense to pay people to have kids? Alamy Estonia is experiencing a small-scale 'third-baby boom' thanks in part to a new financial incentive introduced in which families are paid more for a third child The ‘third-baby boom’ The picture is somewhat different across the Gulf of Finland, where the Baltic nation of Estonia has managed to boost …

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Blood, sweat and workplace wellness: Where to draw the line on incentives
6 years, 5 months ago

Blood, sweat and workplace wellness: Where to draw the line on incentives

Salon  

Workplace wellness programs that offer employees a financial carrot for undergoing health screenings, sticking to exercise regimens or improving their cholesterol levels have long been controversial. “Some are modifying … others are taking a wait-and-see-attitude.” Eighty-five percent of large employers offering health insurance included a wellness program designed to help people stop smoking, lose weight or take other healthful actions, …

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Govt makes flagship financial inclusion scheme 'Jan Dhan' open-ended with more incentives, says Arun Jaitley
6 years, 6 months ago

Govt makes flagship financial inclusion scheme 'Jan Dhan' open-ended with more incentives, says Arun Jaitley

Firstpost  

New Delhi: The government on Wednesday decided to make the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana an open-ended scheme and added more incentives to encourage people to open bank accounts. The free accident insurance cover for those opening Jan Dhan accounts after 28 August too has been doubled to Rs 2 lakh. “It has been decided to continue the flagship financial …

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Kala-azar: The disease that just won’t go away
7 years, 7 months ago

Kala-azar: The disease that just won’t go away

The Hindu  

At 17, Rohim Sarkar weighs as much as the average 11-year-old. There’s a paper on that.” Case and cure files The earliest empirical evidence for a link between PKDL as a silent agent provocateur for kala-azar outbreaks and DDT sprays came in the 1990s from C.P. In a round-up of the country’s progress in dealing with the disease, at a …

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How financial incentives could help tackle Britain’s childhood obesity problem
8 years ago

How financial incentives could help tackle Britain’s childhood obesity problem

The Independent  

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China considers baby bonus for couples to have second child
8 years ago

China considers baby bonus for couples to have second child

CNN  

Story highlights China dropped its one-child policy in 2015 after more than four decades Fertility rates dropped dramatically to 1.5 per woman between 1995 and 2014 Hong Kong CNN — The Chinese government may consider giving families financial incentives to have a second child in a bid to reach higher birth rate targets. Wang Peian, the vice-minister of the National …

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Money May Be Motivating Doctors To Do More C-Sections
11 years, 6 months ago

Money May Be Motivating Doctors To Do More C-Sections

NPR  

Money May Be Motivating Doctors To Do More C-Sections toggle caption iStockphoto.com Obstetricians perform more cesarean sections when there are financial incentives to do so, according to a new study that explores links between economic incentives and medical decision-making during childbirth. In a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, health care economists Erin Johnson and …

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'Pounds for pounds' scheme helps obese people shed stones
14 years, 9 months ago

'Pounds for pounds' scheme helps obese people shed stones

The Independent  

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