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With home-ownership rates running at 80% in urban areas, household wealth, particularly in landed property, already exceeds that of many middle-income economies.
A successful transition to the next phase of wealth creation – driven by the services sector and knowledge-based industries – will require a more market-oriented approach, in which the state cedes some control over the economy and focuses instead on protecting property rights, administering welfare services, reducing pollution, and eliminating corruption.
The Americans pushed for a wholesale remaking of China’s industrial policies and intellectual property rules, while asking China’s government to refrain from any action against Trump’s proposed unilateral tariffs against Chinese exports.
One of the main US complaints against China is that the Chinese systematically violate intellectual property rights in order to steal technological secrets.
And the US had as much regard for British industrialists’ trade secrets as China has today for American intellectual property rights.
Similar destruction of the environment still takes place in some Third World countries where local rights - property rights or the right to demonstrate or organize protests - are trampled on.
Similarly, in the 1990s, China addressed the buildup of bad debt and unfinished construction projects – the result of state-owned enterprises’ chronic loss-making and excessive property investment, respectively – by implementing institutional reforms that stimulated growth in more dynamic sectors, thereby offsetting the SOEs’ declining return on capital.
If a homeowner defaults, creditors can take the house, but they cannot take other property or income to make up any unpaid balance.
And yet, despite the significant increases in asset values traceable to QE over the past several years – residential property as well as financial assets – there has been little to show for it in terms of a wealth-generated recovery in the US economy.
Whatever the rich ask of the CCP - land leases, low interest loans, violation of labor laws, environmental standards, contracts, and intellectual property - can be considered "the demands of advanced productive forces."
Nor was there any discussion of the widespread concern about an ideological shift to the left that could threaten property rights, leading to capital flight as individuals seek to protect their wealth.
Moreover, after the DNA sample has been put in the mail, it is no longer the customer’s property, and the company decides what to do with it.
Brezhnev’s model resembled a bad marriage, exhausted of love or respect, in which the spouses constantly cheat, take advantage of each other, and grab each other’s property, though the powerful husband occasionally reminds his wife that he is boss and demands at least a formal pledge of loyalty – or else.
Significantly, unlike in Russia and other transition countries, Czech privatization did not confer special property rights on managers and other enterprise insiders (who are likely to have many ties to the old regime and thus unlikely to become convinced supporters of the new one), but spread ownership rights over the widest spectrum of general population.
In particular, the survey shows that individuals who participated in both waves of voucher privatization, as well as those who received property through restitution, and also those who took advantage of the new economic freedom to become entrepreneurs, have views often sharply different from the rest of the population.
Restituents -- those 18% of respondents who received property previously owned by a member of their family but confiscated by the communists in 1947 -- are similarly cheery: 66% of them express satisfaction with reform, versus 49% for non-restituents.
The Czech experience suggests that dramatic property reforms can be self-reinforcing, creating an atmosphere spurring further development of a market economy.
More than 20% of sellers in all markets surveyed felt that that their property would have sold as quickly if they had charged 5% or 10% more.
Indian companies listed abroad can buy property in foreign countries, and resident firms will be allowed to pre-pay external commercial debt up to US$100 million.
Such a bulwark is something members of the vast Chinese diaspora across Southeast Asia need, not only in Malaysia, where Islamic extremism remains a small threat, but in Indonesia, where thousands of Chinese have been killed and injured in rioting in recent years, and where thousands more have seen their property damaged or lost.
Gene sequences are patented; cord blood is a hot property.
The most familiar case concerning the body as property is that of John Moore, a patient who developed hairy cell leukemia and had his spleen removed at the UCLA School of Medicine in 1976.
When Moore discovered in 1984 that he had become patent number 4,438,032, he sued for malpractice and property theft.
It argued that giving Moore a property right to his tissue would "destroy the economic incentive to conduct important medical research."
The decline in property values will have far-reaching implications not only for individual wealth, but also for the tax bases of communities and the industries that serve them.
In the meantime, however, there will be an increase in diesel excise duties, and a 20% surcharge on property taxes will be imposed on unoccupied second homes in densely populated areas.
China’s huge industrial overcapacity and property glut needs to be wound down; the hubris driving its global acquisitions must be reined in; and its corruption networks have to be dismantled.
During the 2009-2015 period, while business investment in equipment slowed in the US, it accelerated in intellectual property products, including research and development, software, and so-called artistic originals (the output of artists, studios, and publishers).
Falling property prices are starting a chain reaction that will have a negative effect on developers, investment, and government revenue.
Having sought to cool the property market by reining in runaway prices, Chinese leaders will be hard put to restart growth.
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