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Concerns about overprotection of intellectual property acting as a barrier to innovation and its diffusion are not new.
Indeed, if multinationals and developed countries had an “Interpol” to track down and arrest countries charged with being havens for business piracy, China would likely top the “Most Wanted” list because of its lack of protection of intellectual property rights (IPR).
Moreover, law enforcement and legal sanctions don’t mean much if people do not own property themselves, that would be at risk through fines or other sanctions.
This may explain why the issues of intellectual property rights are, for most developing countries, usually treated as an “international matter,” not a problem for domestic politics.
It offers real hope that China will improve its record of protecting intellectual property.
As developing countries seek to create their own “knowledge economy,” copyright and intellectual property rights will become more and more important.
Poverty is no excuse for “stealing” or gaining a free lunch, of course, but using the protection of intellectual property to keep the poor poor is unjust, and may cause instability that harms rich countries, too.
Reducing the costs for developing countries to use new technologies may, indeed, reduce the incentives for violating copyright and other intellectual property protections.
Many countries now have over-heated property and equity markets; in the US, the S&P 500 index since 2009 has closely tracked the expansion of the Fed’s balance sheet.
Newer trade agreements incorporate rules on “intellectual property,” capital flows, and investment protections that are mainly designed to generate and preserve profits for financial institutions and multinational enterprises at the expense of other legitimate policy goals.
Moreover, property prices are increasing rapidly in some locales, and a few broad share indexes posted double-digit percentage gains over the past year.
Shadow banking in China is dominated by lending to higher-risk borrowers, such as local governments, property developers, and SMEs.
With the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) keeping interest rates artificially low, retail depositors began taking advantage of higher rates of return offered by local governments, property developers, and SMEs, which needed funding to maintain investment and adjust to a new market environment.
The introduction of measures to cool the property market, and new direct regulatory controls over shadow-banking credit, represent a step in the right direction.
Increased costs for investment in real assets would help to rein in property prices and reduce over-capacity in infrastructure and manufacturing.
It is useful to know that there is vastly more to creating economic dynamism than private property; and that high unemployment is not to be laid solely to labor market restrictions.
Therefore property crimes are falling sharply all over.
Some theories also consider underlying institutional factors like property rights, market competition, tax and regulatory burdens, and the level of the rule of law.
He was no longer able to work, travel, choose his place of residence, buy or sell property, or even marry.
The crucial point about the 2016 election is not just that a reality-TV star and property magnate who has never held elected office has emerged as the presumptive Republican candidate.
Left at this stage, knowledge is simply intellectual property, access to which is restricted to paying customers.
Modern democracy, with its mix of universal suffrage and property rights, looks remarkably like a compromise born of centuries of military competition among constitutionally evolving states, according to which the general public supplies the manpower to fight and moneyed interests supply the capital to train and equip the troops.
Companies fear for their intellectual property; ordinary citizens worry about how their private information might be used and abused.
Consumers, policymakers, and companies must work together, not just to agree on common standards of analysis, but also to set the ground rules for the protection of privacy and property.
This second wave of emancipation concentrated on economic inequalities, especially discrimination in job selection and disparities in pay and property rights.
A woman’s bargaining power will therefore be influenced by such factors as the type of job she has, her level of earnings and assets, the strength of her family ties, social attitudes toward divorce, laws governing the ensuing division of property, and the effectiveness of anti-discrimination legislation.
Another key challenge concerns China’s slumping property sector, in which construction and prices dropped rapidly last year.
An estimate of the market value of Boston’s property portfolio suggests that the city’s real estate alone is worth some $55 billion.
These two traits put a great deal of bargaining power in the hands of those who control production and distribution, making them ideal for a market economy based on private property.
Following up on these remarks, Obama drew attention to persistent US concern about China’s exchange-rate policy, inadequate protection of intellectual property, and impediments to market access.
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