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Low wages and low funding in the DR Congo have led to police officers trying to extract funds from drivers.
It doesn’t matter how many meals a provider serves. It matters how many people overcome homelessness.
Bonus afterglow led to boosted sales revenues and greater customer satisfaction across the board, research carried over three years shows.
Offering financial incentives for exercise may be one way of stimulating, and sustaining, a more active lifestyle. Research suggests that even after rewards stop, exercise gains mostly persist.
Many incentive programs promote e-bike use, but they aren’t necessarily targeting the right people for the right reasons.
Whistleblowers should be entitled to financial support. But that has potential costs as well as benefits.
Fighting misinformation doesn’t have to involve restricting content or dampening people’s enthusiasm for sharing it. The key is turning bad habits into good ones.
Given South Africa’s staggering corruption levels, a strong legal framework is needed to encourage and protect whistleblowers.
A recent study found that offering workers a choice of what type of reward they would like for offering good suggestions increased the volume of submissions and their creativity too.
Even after January’s storms, California faces a water-scarce future. An economist and an engineer propose a way to test higher water prices as a conservation strategy without hurting low-income users.
To put the $370 billion in subsidies to work, the US needs to build new infrastructure and manage a lot of regulatory hurdles.
Managed retreat is already common in flood-prone areas, but what about in neighborhoods at high risk from wildfires? Here are four ways communities can pull back for safety.
A set of studies found people prefer incentives to disincentives, especially for individuals but also for businesses. They have views on clean energy and efficiency, too.
14% of Australians aged 18-49 are unwilling to get vaccinated, and almost 15% are unsure.
Cash incentives are likely to be effective for people who are willing to get vaccinated, but haven’t done so yet. Freedom incentives could shift those who are unsure or unwilling.
From free beers to lottery tickets, many jurisdictions around the world have introduced vaccine incentives. Is it time for Australia to do the same?
Electric cars offer benefits for low-income and minority drivers, including cleaner air and lower maintenance costs. But it will take more than rebates on new models to make EVs accessible for all.
The current one-off payment of £500 for people on low incomes is not sufficient to get people to follow the rules.
Society has never faced more pressing challenges. Researchers are investigating how monetary prizes can help focus innovators’ attention, creativity and investment on finding solutions.
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