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Property, construction, and land are the common currencies of power in mafia societies – in China and Russia no less than in Sicily.
If privatization displaces too many workers without compensation, a majority of citizens could come to see it as illegitimate, potentially undermining their support for private ownership of productive property.
The WTO does not recognize China as a market economy, owing to the Chinese government’s significant involvement in industry and alleged theft of intellectual property.
Why Strengthening Land Rights Strengthens DevelopmentWASHINGTON, DC – For most of the world’s poor and vulnerable people, secure property rights, including land tenure, are a rarely accessible luxury.
In Zimbabwe, a customary divorce settlement may result in allocating all family lands and property (and even children) to the husband, with the wife left to return to her father or another male relative.
To that end, the World Bank Group is engaging with partners at the local, national, and global levels to strengthen countries’ commitments and mobilize resources to achieve the ambitious target of achieving adequate land and property rights for all by 2030.
To remove investment protection – at a time of instability and insecure property rights, no less – is antithetical to the purpose of such treaties.
Gender equality is thus an essential element of our work in building resilience to disasters and reducing the risk to lives, jobs, and property.
As investors sought the higher yields on land, property, equities, bonds, and bank deposits that were attainable in emerging markets after 2008, capital inflows to Latin America tripled, boosting asset prices, credit, and aggregate demand.
"Protect property rights and enforce contracts," say Western economists.
But property rights and contracts are threatened at many levels.
Simply put, a weak state cannot enforce contracts and property rights, while a state that is strong enough to enforce them must control its own bureaucrats.
Given that property prices are unlikely to fall by such a large margin, the bubble’s collapse would not bring down China’s banks.
Nikolai, Leviathan's hotheaded main character, sees his life consumed by the fight to save his seashore property from the town's mayor.
This is unfortunate, as the TPP would have revolutionized intellectual property rights and boosted transparency to unprecedented levels, while lowering tariff and non-tariff barriers.
If these proliferating trade pacts are to spur virtuous cycles of growth for developing countries, they must not only reduce trade barriers; they must also build the institutional framework of a modern economy, including robust intellectual property (IP) rights.
Property rights and the rule of law are always important so that investors--both current and prospective--can expect to retain the money they make.
For example, the principle that property rights should be protected implies very little about the best way to achieve this under a society's existing institutional preconditions.
It certainly does not imply that a system of private property rights and Anglo-American corporate governance is the right approach for all countries at all times.
Consider the vast investment and entrepreneurial activity that China has elicited through a hybrid system of property rights and a legal regime that is as far as imaginable from the Anglo-American system.
The proposed changes were reported to include an amendment that would guarantee the same rights to property for private entrepreneurs as for state-owned enterprises, the constitutional right of Party members to choose their leaders, and even some steps toward a multi-party political system.
But China has been playing a different game with its alleged theft of intellectual property and forced technology transfers.
Environmental taxes could lead to better air and water quality, even as they raise substantial revenues; congestion taxes would improve quality of life in cities; property and capital-gains taxes would encourage higher investment in productive activities, promoting growth.
Developing countries need to ensure reliable property rights and policy enforcement in order to generate the incentives needed to protect nature in the future.
Whereas more than 80% of the value of the Standard & Poor’s 500 consisted of tangible assets 40 years ago, today that ratio is reversed: more than 80% of the largest companies’ value is intangible – the knowledge and skills of their employees and the intellectual property embedded in their products.
Though land reforms over the last three decades have recognized property rights for individuals and enterprises, rural land rights remain weak relative to legal conditions in urban areas.
By strengthening farmers’ property rights, and restricting local governments’ power to expropriate land for urban growth, cities would become more compact and efficient, especially in terms of energy use.
Land reform would also help to spread wealth, because stronger property rights boost rural land prices.
A property tax or a local surcharge on personal income taxes would target those who most benefit from urban living.
They complain bitterly about regulators’ “interference” with the free market, property rights, and the sacrosanct ideal of home ownership.
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