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As a result, many private firms have turned away from their core business to speculate in the equities and property markets.
Moreover, given the vast inequalities of power and wealth in Latin America, and with a large part of the population bereft of land and education, the region has long been vulnerable to populist politics and rebellions, with leaders promising quick gains for the dispossessed by seizing property from the elites.
The elites have fought back, often brutally, to protect their property.
Politics has therefore often been more a violent than an electoral struggle, and property rights have often been tenuous.
When most households own no productive assets, they cannot share any of the asset appreciation or property income.
The state’s role is to protect, enforce, and regulate these contracts and related property rights, as well as to intervene to prevent systemic failure.
In 1998, for example, the government led a chorus blaming the British for the property price bubble that was punctured by Asia's financial crisis of 1997, causing the stock market to fall sharply.
But the bubble was really manufactured by China's communist rulers over a decade earlier on the advice of local property magnates, who wanted to limit the amount of land British colonials were permitted to sell.
Much of Hong Kong's elite shares the same mindset, despite their training in Western business schools and their fortunes gained from property trading.
Politicians are blamed because they did not tighten fiscal policies when needed in order to prevent property bubbles, rein in external deficits, and avert economic overheating.
Now, after the bubbles have burst, and the property market’s inevitable collapse has been followed by that of banks, public finances, and labor markets, the villains must be punished.
First, most of the 47% pay a great deal of tax on their earnings, property, and goods purchased.
After all, the brick factory bosses paid 400 Yuan for each child, so their property rights are at stake.
The report, which focuses on the cost to the United States of its failure to act on climate change, indicates that up to a half-trillion dollars of US property, and some 70% of agricultural output, will be subject to climate risks this century.
And most economists agree that the US has genuine trade grievances against China, including intellectual property theft, asymmetrical technology transfers, and non-tariff barriers, such as the requirement that foreign companies enter joint-venture agreements with domestic firms to access the Chinese market.
Nor did the Nazis exterminate the Jews in order to take their property – most Jews were poor, and those who owned anything probably would have given it up gladly in order to save themselves.
Following years of mismanagement and reckless lending, the bank was the first big victim of the commercial property market’s decline in 1990.
The crucial distinction is private property.
But such small-scale loans are hard to obtain in developing countries, which often lack the necessary institutional arrangements such as credit agencies and clear property rights.
While progress on economic rebalancing is encouraging, China has put far more on its plate: simultaneous plans to modernize the financial system, reform the currency, and address excesses in equity, debt, and property markets.
Historically, good institutions such as secure property rights and the rule of law were seen as the single most important factor driving variation in the wealth of countries, and more corruption was associated with lower growth.
They can claim legal rights, including property rights, which are vital to allow individuals to prosper and the economy to grow.
To that end, China has curtailed Western companies’ access to its markets, making it conditional on their transfer of technology and intellectual property to domestic “partners.”
Although there is not yet enough evidence to assess the cost-benefit ratios of specific policies, the evidence available suggests that policy-makers should also prioritize improving the provision of education, creating more secure property rights through land reform, promoting microfinance, and improving rural infrastructure.
The optimistic view is that property rights are becoming more deeply anchored than they were in the past, and that Russia’s future will depend on how fast a middle class with a stake in law-based government can be created.
Democracy is a universal value, not the property of specific religions.
It also requires effort to build four types of institutions required to maintain growth momentum and build resilience to shocks:Market-creating institutions (for property rights and contract enforcement);Market-regulating institutions (for externalities, economies of scale, and information about companies);Market-stabilizing institutions (for monetary and fiscal management);Market-legitimizing institutions (for social protection and insurance).
Trade deficits and surpluses also matter, as do stock-market and property valuations, the cyclical outlook for corporate profits, and positive or negative surprises for economic growth and inflation.
More laws – and better enforcement – are needed to reduce domestic violence against women, and to increase women’s bargaining power through broader property ownership, better access to legal and other support services, and greater freedom to leave marriages.
Intellectual Property, Not Intellectual MonopolyWASHINGTON, DC – “The copyright and patent laws we have today look more like intellectual monopoly than intellectual property,” wrote Brink Lindsey and Steven Teles in their recent book about the US economy.
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