I believe that the payoff would be very big.

One is to deliver extrinsic motivation, that education has a payoff.

Number five of the seven is the payoff. This is it. The climax.

And then Danny says a really great journey will have a secret payoff.

And you can think of it in terms of a game theoretic payoff matrix.

Noting these points if it can be achieved quickly it is potentially an area of significant payoff.

On the other hand, if you extend the bribe, if the officer is dishonest, you get a huge payoff of going free.

Our education systems all work on the principle that there is a payoff, but you have to wait quite a long time.

You can't really well, you can't see it at all but the second line is really the more kind of payoff, in a sense.

It is likely that Pachauri is right and Gore is wrong neither China nor India will commit to significant cuts without a massive payoff.

If they could only agree, if they could only turn a prisoner's dilemma into a different payoff matrix called an assurance game, they could proceed.

Neither one wants to be the first one or they're going to get the sucker's payoff, but both lose, of course, because they don't get what they want.

The payoff will be worth it. Indeed, as with the adoption of IT elsewhere, we may soon wonder how health care could have been delivered any other way.

One payoff can come from Africans building distinctive satellite instruments, and thus spawning a globally competitive industry. Better ways to cope with climate change also can come from space research.

Waiting 10 years for the payoff from education is too long when you need to meet daily needs, when you've got siblings to look after or a business to help with.

The payoff expected is more medium and long term, but both national Governments and international partners seem prepared to accommodate this for the sake of greater harmonization of official development assistance.

Fortunately, the team s management understood this and persevered, despite the lack of a short term payoff. Klinsmann s assistant trainer, Joachim Löw, succeeded him, and became the architect of the 2014 championship bid.

On the other hand, with indirect language, if you issue a veiled bribe, then the dishonest officer could interpret it as a bribe, in which case you get the payoff of going free.

And all of a sudden ... You may not call that reading and writing, but a certain bit of typing and reading stuff on the screen has a huge payoff, and it's a lot of fun.

In fact, the push for better education is an experiment that has already been carried out globally. And, as my Harvard colleague Lant Pritchett has pointed out, the long term payoff has been surprisingly disappointing.

But a growing body of research concludes that greed is not always good, and that moral values are a necessary element in the conduct of business. The Gordon Gekkos are predators who take the quick payoff.

The importance of this investment in future state building, as well as business relationships, cannot be underestimated. Although the payoff may seem distant, investing in today s refugees could make all the difference in building tomorrow s strong, stable trading partners.

But the payoff, for both the US and the liberal world order that it created, would be substantial. The key to success will be America's ability to retain the best and abandon the worst of that most American of notions exceptionalism.

Thus was born the field of rational choice political economy, and a style of theorizing that many political scientists readily emulated. The apparent payoff was that we could now explain why politicians did so many things that violated economic rationality.

There is an adaptive logic to being kind to those with whom we continually interact we scratch their backs, they scratch ours. But there is no Darwinian payoff to sacrificing our resources to anonymous strangers, particularly those in faraway lands.

When the industrial longline vessels deplete the local fisheries and move their operations that once provided a payoff to individual nations, local communities are left with the crisis of trying to feed their families and communities from badly damaged marine ecosystems.

One cause of the financial crisis was financial institutions appetite for selecting (and in some cases, creating) products with above average returns in normal times but excessive losses in exceptional cases. Old nuclear power plants in seismic zones have a similar payoff structure.

Imposing unilateral duties after unilaterally labeling China a currency manipulator would undermine the multilateral system, with little payoff. China might respond by imposing duties on those American products effectively directly or indirectly subsidized by America s massive bailouts of its banks and car companies.

Governments, donors, and other investors can still make bad choices, but there are unprecedented opportunities for high payoff growth. If funders take notice, farmers are poised to respond and 2010 could mark the start of a bright new era in African agriculture.

Significant and persistent health inequality indicates that, by raising the health levels of those with lower incomes or less education, massive strides could be made in improving populations overall health. This may require reshaping the welfare system to some extent, but the payoff would be well worth the effort.

Do you go into your board and say, Look, I've got a fantastic idea for an embryonic product in a marginal market, with consumers we've never dealt with before, and I'm not sure it's going to have a big payoff, but it could be really, really big in the future?

Our proposal to reduce but not eliminate swings from parity recognizes that price fluctuations may be crucial for markets to ascertain the price of assets that promise an uncertain payoff. But currency swings, if too wide and protracted, can impede real economic activity, which is why intervention is sometimes necessary.

Both the dominant Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its secular rivals remain publicly committed to pursuing EU membership, but in practice doubts have emerged. French President Nicolas Sarkozy s insistence that a referendum should be held on Turkey s admission suggests that years of painful adjustment to EU norms will never produce the payoff of membership.

The Gordon Gekkos are predators who take the quick payoff. Although they do serve a useful purpose by keeping other players on their toes and raising efficiency through competition, market participants for the most part avoid them, preferring to do business with the Warren Buffetts hard driving businessmen, but known for fair play and creating long term value.

Throughout the developing world, governments urgently need to devise the right mix of investments and policies to encourage their young people to get an education, find work, stay healthy, form families, and exercise citizenship. The payoff is huge if they get it right accelerated development as economies reap the benefits of a burgeoning working age population and lower dependency ratios.

And economists forgive me, for those of you who play the lottery but economists, at least among themselves, refer to the lottery as a stupidity tax, because the odds of getting any payoff by investing your money in a lottery ticket are approximately equivalent to flushing the money directly down the toilet which, by the way, doesn't require that you actually go to the store and buy anything.

Many countries have been in this position before, exhilarated by natural resource bonanzas, only to see the boom end in disappointment and the opportunity squandered, with little payoff in terms of a better quality of life for their people. But, whether in Libya or Ghana, political leaders today have an advantage most are well aware of history, and want to know how to avoid the infamous natural resource curse.